From tal.mizrahi at ef.technion.ac.il Thu Jan 2 02:21:28 2020 From: tal.mizrahi at ef.technion.ac.il (Tal Mizrahi) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 07:21:28 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: ACM SYSTOR 2020 Message-ID: [apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ============================================================ C A L L F O R P A P E R S SYSTOR 2020 13th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference June 2 - 4, 2020, Haifa, Israel https://www.systor.org/2020/ Scope: ====== 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. Important Dates: ================ Full and Short Papers Track Paper Submission Tuesday, March 3, 2020 Acceptance Notification Sunday, April 19, 2020 Camera-ready Monday, May 4, 2020 Highlight Papers Track Extended Abstract Submission TBD Acceptance Notification TBD Posters with Extended Abstract Track Poster & Abstract Submission Tuesday, 17, March, 2020 Acceptance Notification Sunday, April 19, 2020 Camera-ready Monday, May 4, 2020 Informal Student Poster Presentations Track Poster Submission Tuesday, 17, March, 2020 Acceptance Notification Sunday, April 19, 2020 Conference June 2-4, 2020 Program Chairs: =============== Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto, Canada) Danny Harnik (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Program Committee: ================== Andr? Brinkmann (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Andreas Haeberlen (University of Pennsylvania) Anirudh Badam (Microsoft Research) Avani Wildani (Emory University) Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech) Christof Fetzer (Dresden University of Technology) David Lie (University of Toronto) Edward Bortnikov (Verizon Media) Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz and Pure Storage) Gala Yadgar (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) Haryadi Gunawi (University of Chicago) Heiner Litz (University of California Santa Cruz) Irfan Ahmad (Magnition) Jo?o Paulo (INESC TEC and University of Minho) Kaveh Mahdaviani (University of Toronto) Larry Rudolph (Two Sigma) Manos Kapritsos (University of Michigan) Marc S?nchez- Artigas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Moshe Gabel (University of Toronto) Nadav Amit (Vmware Research) Nitin Agrawal (ThoughtSpot.) Patrick Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Philip Shilane (Dell EMC) Randal Burns (Johns Hopkins University) Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research) Vijay Chidambaram (University of Texas at Austin and Vmware Research) Yuval Cassuto (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) General Chair: ============== Anna Levin (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Poster Chair: ============= Artem Barger (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Publication Chair: ================== Itai Dabran (Technion, Israel) Publicity Chair: ================ Tal Mizrahi (Huawei Smart Platforms iLab, Israel) Local Arrangements Chair: ========================= Revivit Yankovich (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) See you in Haifa! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From akiyama at ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Jan 7 05:56:35 2020 From: akiyama at ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Soramichi Akiyama) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 19:56:35 +0900 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: ACM APSys 2020 (August 24 - 25, Tsukuba, Japan) Message-ID: <20200107195635.4e5ac83c8955dfd9803bff77@ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Dear members of Storage-research-list, My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Please find below the call for papers of 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2020), which will be held in August 24th - 25th, 2020 in Tsukuba, Japan. The deadline is May 25th (Mon), 2020. ============================================================== 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2020) https://www.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/apsys2020/ Tsukuba, Japan, August 24-25, 2020 * Call for Papers The 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems will be held in Tsukuba, Japan. Building on the success of its predecessors, APSys 2020 will continue to be a lively forum for systems researchers and practitioners across the world to meet, interact, and collaborate with their peers from the Asia/Pacific region. APSys takes a broad view of systems. This includes operating systems, virtualization, storage systems, distributed systems, mobile and embedded systems, cloud and data center systems, edge computing, data/graph analytics, networking, security and privacy, dependability, debugging, and manageability, as well as new systems contributions influenced by other fields such as hardware architecture, programming languages, machine learning and AI, databases, verification, social organization, and cryptocurrency. The workshop favors works with an experimental flavor such as measurement and prototyping. * Submission Guidelines Submissions should have six or fewer pages of technical content, including all text, figures, tables, appendices, etc., formatted in standard ACM two-column conference style with 10-pt font size. Bibliographic references are not included in the 6-page limit. Reviewing will be double-blind: no author or affiliation information should appear in the submission. The authors should additionally follow the best practice in order not to disclose their identities implicitly. A submission may present preliminary results, propose a new research direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative viewpoint on an important systems topic. Papers will be selected based on their likelihood of generating insightful technical discussions at the workshop and influencing future systems research. Relevant attributes include originality, technical merit, clarity, and technical relevance. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the workshop, which will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Consistent with standard scholarly practice, the authors should not have substantially similar work in review anywhere else. Submissions can be made online at the APSys 2020 submission site. https://apsys20.hotcrp.com/. * Important Dates Submission due: May 25 (Mon), 2020, 23:59:59 EDT (Hard Deadline) Notification to authors: June 19 (Fri), 2020 Camera ready due: July 6 (Mon), 2020 Poster submission due: June 26 (Fri), 2020 Poster notification: June 30 (Tue), 2020 Workshop: August 24-25, 2020 * Organizing Committee General Chair Kenichi Kourai (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Program Chairs Patrick P. C. Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Taesoo Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology) Local Arrangement Chair Takahiro Hirofuchi (National Institute of Advanced Insdustrial Science and Technology) Treasurer Katsuya Matsubara (Future University Hakodate) Registration Chair Hiroshi Yamada (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) Publication Chair Takahiro Shinagawa (The University of Tokyo) Travel Grant Chair Tatsuhiro Chiba (IBM Research) Poster Chair Yongkun Li (University of Science and Technology of China) Publicity Chair Soramichi Akiyama (The University of Tokyo) From vitali at cs.umu.se Thu Jan 9 11:36:08 2020 From: vitali at cs.umu.se (Monica Vitali) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 17:36:08 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP 1st International Workshop on Next Generation Information Systems: Modeling, Monitoring and Management in Cloud and Fog Computing (NeGIS 2020) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, this is an invitation to submit a research paper to the NeGIS workshop at CAiSE'20. I hope this can be of interest to you. You are kindly invited to spread the information. CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================== 1st International Workshop on Next Generation Information Systems: Modeling, Monitoring and Management in Cloud and Fog Computing (NeGIS 2020) Co-located with CAiSE'20 June 9th 2020 Grenoble, France ========================================================== SCOPE ====== The amount of data and services supported by Information Systems (ISs) has increased exponentially during the last few years. To improve their efficiency and reduce costs, modern organizations have been shifting their services, with part of their ISs, to the Cloud. More recent developments have shown an inversion towards decentralization and distribution of applications and services in the huge pool of devices and computing facilities available nearer to the customers. This shift is due to the impact of Internet of Things, which is further increasing the amount of data to be stored and computed. Fog Computing is the last frontier for ISs, where data and services can be moved in the continuum of resources between the cloud and the edge. In this workshop, we aim to collect contributions investigating issues related to the management of cloud and fog computing in modern information systems with a focus, but not limited, on energy efficiency, security, and privacy, their relations and trade-off with other requirements such as response time and throughput. In doing so, we are considering both the application components of the information system with their complexity, as well as the management of the data used by such applications. We also consider the impact of the human in the loop, looking at how the awareness and the behaviors of users and designers in socio-technical systems can affect the effective adoption of energy and security policies. Topics include but are not limited to: - Modelling Cloud and Fog computing solutions for modern Information Systems - Monitoring and Managing Information Systems in Cloud and Fog Computing - Models, methods, and tools for data management in Cloud and Fog Computing - Energy-awareness and sustainability in Information Systems: metrics and measurements - Quality of Service, energy efficiency and security in Mobile Edge Computing - Methodologies and tools for energy efficiency and security compliance in Cloud and Fog computing - Adaptive approaches to manage energy consumption, QoS, and security of applications and systems - Energy and Security aware blockchain solutions - Energy and security requirements in Information Systems and Socio-Technical Systems Energy and security behaviours in Socio-Technical Systems Negis2020 will be co-located in Grenoble with the 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems (CAISE'20, 8-12 June 2020). BEST PAPER AWARD ================= The best paper will be considered for publication in a high level international journal. To be selected the paper must include a validation of the proposed approach. The authors of the paper selected as best paper will have to provide an extended version for submission to a fast evaluation track. KEY DATES ========= Abstract submission: 20th February 2020 Full paper submissions: 26th February 2020 Notification of acceptance: 1st April 2020 Camera-ready copies: 7th April 2020 Workshop: 9th June 2020 SUBMISSION ========== Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2020 The workshop is addressed to researchers with a strong background in the field of Modeling, Monitoring and Management of information systems in Cloud and Fog Computing. Contributions will be evaluated for their relevance to the workshop topics and will be blind reviewed by at least three PC members. The workshop will be divided into two main parts. In the first part, authors of accepted papers will present their work. This part will be divided into sessions according to the topics emerged from the contributions. The second part will be a round table for discussing issues and solutions, aiming at enhancing collaboration. Contributions are accepted in the form of: - Full Papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of sustainable IS engineering. - *S*hort Papers describe an initial approach towards an innovative ea in the field of sustainable IS engineering. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer?s LNBIP format and should not exceed 12 pages (6 pages for short papers), including all text, figures, references and appendices. Authors should consult Springer?s authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. ORGANIZATION ============ Workshop Chairs: Monica Vitali, Ume? University, Sweden Mattia Salnitri Politecnico di Milano, Italy Ting Li Beijing University of Technology, China Program Committee: Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany Achim Brucker, University of Exeter, UK Georges Da Costa, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France Vasiliki Diamantopoulou, University of the Aegean, Greece Christina Herzog, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy Giovanni Meroni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK John Mylopoulos, University of Ottawa, Canada Anne-C?cile Orgerie, CNRS - IRISA, France Per-Olov ?stberg, Ume? University, Sweden Elda Paja, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Michalis Pavlidis, University of Brighton, UK Jean-Marc Pierson, Paul Sabatier University, France Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Patricia Stolf, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France Haiyang Yu, Beijing University of Technology, China CONTACTS ========= Workshop website: www.negis.polimi.it (under construction) Workshop mail account: negis2020 at easychair.org Workshop twitter account: @ NeGIS_workshop Monica Vitali Senior Lecturer Department of Computing Science Ume? University e-mail: vitali at cs.umu.se web: http://vitali.faculty.polimi.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Fri Jan 10 12:49:26 2020 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:49:26 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning (co-located with IPDPS 2020) Message-ID: <3A51F0BD-7170-4734-B456-CB1FAA016837@pnnl.gov> [Please accept our apologies for multiple postings.] CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ May 18, 2020 Co-Located with IPDPS 2020 New Orleans Louisiana, USA GrAPL is the result of the combination of two IPDPS workshops: GABB: Graph Algorithms Building Blocks GraML: Workshop on The Intersection of Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning ****************************************************************************** SUMMARY ------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Many real-world analytic workloads are a mix of graph and machine learning methods. Graphs play an important role in the synthesis and analysis of relationships and organizational structures, furthering the ability of machine-learning methods to identify signature features. Given the difference in the parallel execution models of graph algorithms and machine learning methods, current tools, runtime systems, and architectures do not deliver consistently good performance across data analysis workflows. In this workshop we are interested in graphs, how their synthesis (representation) and analysis is supported in hardware and software, and the ways graph algorithms interact with machine learning. The workshop?s scope is broad and encompasses the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. In particular, we are interested, but not limited to the following topics: ? Provide tractability and performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows; ? Discuss the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; ? Discuss programming models and associated frameworks such as Pregel, Galois, Boost, GraphBLAS, GraphChi, etc., for building large multi-attributed graphs; ? Discuss how frameworks for building graph algorithms interact with those for building machine learning algorithms; ? Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; Besides regular papers, short papers (up to four pages) describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Position or full paper submission: February 3, 2020 Author Notification: February 29, 2020 Camera-ready: March 15, 2020 Workshop: May 18, 20120 PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Submissions will be done through Linklings: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/ Please visit GrAPL'20 website for instructions: https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ Authors can submit two types of papers: Short papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers (up to 10 pages). All submissions must be single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ORGANIZATION ------------ General co-Chairs: Scott McMillan (CMU SEI), smcmillan at sei.cmu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1 at us.ibm.com Program Chairs: Danai Koutra (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), dkoutra at umich.edu Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), hala at pnnl.gov GrAPL's Little Helpers: Tim Mattson (Intel) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) Program Committee: Nesreen K Ahmed, Intel Research and Intel AI, USA Sasikanth Avancha, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Lab, India Aydin Bulu?, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, USA Jana Doppa, Washington State University, USA John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Sergio G?mez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Will Hamilton, McGill University, Mila, Canada Stratis Ioannidis, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Bharat Kaul, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Labs, India Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Henning Meyerhenke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Indranil Roy, Natural Intelligence, USA Robert Rallo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA P. Sadayappan, University of Utah, USA Yizhou Sun, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, Italy Steering Committee: David A. Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Ayd?n Bulu? (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Tim Mattson (Intel) Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) From quihan1989 at gmail.com Sat Jan 11 05:01:24 2020 From: quihan1989 at gmail.com (Henry Q) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:01:24 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP The 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020) Message-ID: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020) May 25-27, Baltimore, USA http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2020/ *IMPORTANT DATES*Paper submission: *January 15th, 2020* Author notification: March 15th, 2020 Camera-Ready: April 5th, 2020 Registration: April 5th, 2020 Conference date: May 25th-27th, 2020 *CALL FOR PAPERS*With rapid development of big data storage and computing techniques, we have developed novel techniques beyond big data. Many aspects for both scientific research and people?s daily life have been influenced by big data based technology such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and Internet of Things. Providing security and privacy for big data storage, transmission, and processing have been attracting much attention in all big data related areas. IEEE BigDataSecurity 2020 addresses this domain and aims to gather recent academic achievements in this field. Security and robustness on Artificial Intelligence is the second concentration of IEEE BigDataSecurity 2020. The emerging needs for building reliable and robust AI models in Big Data and Cloud environments with security and privacy guaranteed have attracted attention from a number of different perspectives. The new methods deployed in Big Data and Cloud environment have covered distinct dimensions, such as robust deep learning, secure deep learning/machine learning, multi-party computing, edge/fog computing, energy consumptions, high performance, and heterogeneous resources, cloud models, heterogeneous architecture, tele-health, resource allocation, load balance, multimedia, and QoS, etc. - Novel big data model - Big data security issues in IoT - Big data privacy issues in IoT - Big data security issues in cloud computing - Big data privacy in cloud computing - Big data storage, integration, service, mining - Blockchain-based security mechanism - Blockchain-based big data sharing - Security and privacy issues in blockchain - Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall - Cyber monitoring, incident response - Database security, data center security - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Cyber threat intelligence - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Tele-health security in cloud computing - Sensor network security in cloud computing - Security policy and legal considerations - Cloud and networking security - Cloud computing and networking models - Virtualization for big data on cloud - MapReduce with cloud for big data processing - Heterogeneous architecture for cloud computing - Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud computing - Load balance for cloud computing - Mobile cloud computing - Mobile commerce security and privacy - Green cloud computing - Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations - Cyber Security in emergent technologies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ggrider at lanl.gov Sun Jan 12 12:27:29 2020 From: ggrider at lanl.gov (Grider, Gary Alan) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 17:27:29 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Mass Storage Systems and Technology research track call Message-ID: <8832bcd1e278438e8dabb97806e65b82@lanl.gov> MSST 2019 Research Call for Papers https://storageconference.us/ May 4 - 8, 2020 Tutorials May 4 Invited speaker track May 5-6 Research track May 7-8 Sponsored by Santa Clara University, School of Engineering Research track Information MSST 2020 will be held May 4-8, 2020 at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. The Research Track will be May 7 and 8. The Research Program Committee requests the submission of research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Exascale storage architecture and design * Parallel and distributed file systems * Designs of integrating parallel programming and distributed storage systems * Storage security and privacy * Storage provenance * Scalable metadata management * Techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems * Cloud storage systems and global-scale storage * Performance modeling and analysis of storage systems * Experiences with real-world systems and data storage challenges * Data protection and recovery * Long term archiving, data preservation and management * Data compression and deduplication * Storage for virtualized environments * File systems * Tiered storage * Storage virtualization * Networked storage architectures * New storage APIs: object storage, key-value stores, and others * I/O stacks for low-latency storage devices * Alternative Flash Translation Layers * Storage class memory devices and systems * New memory technologies As is traditional, MSST will solicit short (4-6 pages) and full (8-14 pages) papers. References are not included in page counts. Paper formats should adhere to the IEEE conference templates available at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=msst2020 Dates: Research Track Submission Deadline: Feb 15, 2020 Notifications: March 15, 2020 Program Chairs: * Darrell Long, UCSC * Michal Simon, CERN 1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From juliankunkel at googlemail.com Sun Jan 19 07:14:21 2020 From: juliankunkel at googlemail.com (Julian Kunkel) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:14:21 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] The 6th HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (HPC-IODC 2020) in conjunction with ISC High Performance on Thursday, June 25th, 2020, in Frankfurt, Germany Message-ID: URL: https://hps.vi4io.org/events/2020/iodc == Workshop overview == Managing scientific data at a 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 built 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 an abstract for your talk. Contributions to both tracks are peer-reviewed and require submission of the respective research paper or idea for your presentation via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpciodc20 == Track: research papers == We are excited to announce that research papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series and extended manuscripts in the new open-access Journal of High-Performance Storage (https://jhps.vi4io.org/) as well. The research track accepts papers covering state-of-the-practice and research dedicated to storage in the datacenter. We accept papers with up to 12 pages (excl. references) in LNCS format. For accepted papers, the length of the talk during the workshop depends on the controversiality and novelty of the approach (the length is decided based on the preference provided by the authors and feedback from the reviewers). We also allow virtual participation (without attending the workshop personally). All relevant work in the area of data center storage will be able to publish with our joint workshop proceedings, we just believe the available time should be used best to discuss controversial topics. === Topics === The relevant topics for papers cover all aspects of data center I/O including: * application workflows * user productivity and costs * performance monitoring * dealing with heterogeneous storage * data management aspects * archiving and long term data management * state-of-the-practice (e.g., using or optimizing a storage system for data center workloads) * research that tackles data center I/O challenges === Paper Deadlines === * Submission deadline: 2020-02-24 AoE * Author notification: 2020-04-24 * Pre-final submission: 2020-06-10 * Workshop: 2020-06-25 == 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: 2020-04-10 AoE * Author notification: 2020-05-03 == Program committee == * Thomas Boenisch (High-performance Computing Center Stuttgart) * Suren Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) * Matthew Curry (Sandia National Laboratories) * Sandro Fiore (CMCC) * Wolfgang Frings (Juelich Supercomputing Centre) * Javier Garcia Blas (Carlos III University) * Adrian Jackson (The University of Edinburgh) * Ivo Jimenez (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Anthony Kougkas (Illinois Institute of Technology) * Glenn Lockwood (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) * Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories) * Carlos Maltzahn (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Suzanne McIntosh (New York University) * Maria Perez (Technical University of Madrid) * Robert Ross (Argonne National Laboratory) * George S. Markomanolis (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) * Feiyi Wang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) * Bing Xie (Oak Ridge National Lab) == Organizers == * Julian Kunkel (University of Reading) * Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories) * Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN) From m.kabiri-chimeh at sheffield.ac.uk Tue Jan 21 04:26:55 2020 From: m.kabiri-chimeh at sheffield.ac.uk (Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:26:55 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] WHPC@ISC'20 Call for posters Message-ID: Call for early/mid career posters on HPC topics for the 12th International Women in HPC Workshop ================================================================= 12th International Women in HPC workshop Thursday June 25th 2020 ? Frankfurt, Germany Call for posters and participation https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2020/workshop ================================================================= The twelfth international Women in HPC workshop will discuss methods to improve diversity and provide early career women with the opportunity to develop their professional skills and profile. The workshop will include: - Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies - Putting in place a framework to help women take grow their careers - Explore pathways to leadership positions - Posters and lightning talks by women working in HPC - Short talks on topics including: dealing with sponsorship versus mentorship, the case for reverse mentorship to achieve diversity, addressing toxic behaviour at work, career advancement strategies, and 3 minute networking solution. Call for posters: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: March 2nd 2020 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a poster. 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 ISC20: Successful authors will have the opportunity to present their posters in the main ISC20 conference poster session. For full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2020/workshop *Workshop Organising Committee* - Workshop Chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (NVIDIA, UK) - Co-chair: Fouzhan Hosseini (Numerical Algorithms Group, UK) - Vice-chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) - Submissions Chair: Weronika Filinger (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK) - Submissions Co-Chair: Vitalina Morais (Mozambique Research and Education Network, Africa) - Mentoring Chair: Aiman Shaikh (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK) - Invited Talks Chair: Rosa Filgueira (EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK) - Publicity Chair: Cristin Merritt (Alces Flight, UK) - Website Chair: Caitlin Ross (Kitware, USA) -- Dr Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (NVIDIA) Visiting Researcher @ The University of Sheffield Software Sustainability Institute Fellow +447776633818 | mkchimeh.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Mon Jan 27 00:40:25 2020 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:40:25 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] Computing Frontiers 2020 - Deadline Extended! Message-ID: <57773E3C-5C58-42ED-8B3C-27296F5047F6@pnnl.gov> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] NEWS: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 11!!!! ================================================================== ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2020 (CF'20) May 11 - 13th, 2020, Catania, Sicily, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: February 11, 2020 (Extended) http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2020/ ================================================================== The next ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers will be held May 11th - 13th in Sicily, Italy, in the town of Catania. Computing Frontiers is an eclectic, interdisciplinary, collaborative community of researchers who investigate emerging technologies in the broad field of computing: our common goal is to drive the scientific breakthroughs that transform society. CF's broad scope is driven by recent technological advances in wide-ranging fields impacting computing, such as memory hardware and systems, network and systems architecture, cloud computing, novel device physics and materials, power efficiency, new application domains of machine and deep learning and big data analytics, and systems portability and wearability. The boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the advancing frontiers of science, engineering, and information technology ? and are the CF community focus. CF provides a venue to share, discuss, and advance broad, forward-thinking, early research on the future of computing and welcomes work on a wide spectrum of computer systems, from embedded and hand-held/wearable devices to supercomputers and datacenters. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper Submission deadline: February 11th, 2020 Notification: March 29th, 2020 Final Papers Due: April 19th, 2020 Conference Dates: May 11-13th, 2020 TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== We seek original research contributions at the frontiers of a wide range of topics, including novel computational models and algorithms, new application paradigms, computer architecture (from embedded to HPC systems), computing hardware, memory technologies, networks, storage solutions, compilers, and environments. * Innovative Computing Approaches, Architectures, Accelerators, Algorithms, and Models - Approximate, analog, inexact, probabilistic computing - Quantum computing - Neuromorphic, biologically-inspired computing, and optical computing - Dataflow architectures, near-data, and in-memory processing * Technological Scaling Limits and Beyond - Limits: Defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other novel materials, nanoscale design, dark silicon - Extending past Moore?s law: 3D-stacking, many-core architectures and accelerators, distributed computing on mobile devices and their challenges * Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Big Data Analytics - Novel architecture and systems across computing systems (IoT to datacenter) - High performance data analytics - Exascale data management * Embedded, IoT, and Cyber-Physical Systems - Ultra-low power designs, energy scavenging - Physical security, attack detection and prevention - Reactive, real-time, scalable, reconfigurable, and self-aware systems - Sensor networks, IoT, and architectural innovation for wearable computing * Large-Scale System Design and Networking - Large-scale homogeneous/heterogeneous architectures and networking - System-balance and CPU-offloading - Power- and energy-management for clouds, datacenters, and exascale systems * System Software, Compiler Technologies, and Programming Languages - Technologies that push the limits of operating systems, virtualization, and container technologies - Large scale frameworks for distributed computing and communication - Resource and job management, scheduling and workflow systems for managing large-scale heterogeneous systems - Compiler technologies: hardware/software integrated solutions, high-level synthesis - Tools for analyzing and managing performance at large scale - Novel programming approaches * Fault Tolerance and Resilience - Solutions for ultra-large and safety-critical systems (e.g., infrastructure, airlines) - Hardware and software approaches in adverse environments such as space * Security - Methods, system support, and hardware for protecting against malicious code - Real-time implementations of security algorithms and protocols - Quantum and post-quantum cryptography * Computers and Society - Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics and AI environmental impact - Education, health, cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities, emerging markets, and interdisciplinary applications We strongly encourage submissions in emerging fields that may not fit into traditional categories -- if in doubt, contact the PC co-chairs by email. CONFERENCE WEBSITE ================== http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2020/ SUBMISSION ========== We encourage the submission of both full and short papers containing high-quality research describing original and unpublished work. Papers must be submitted through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cf2020 Short papers may be position papers or may describe preliminary or highly speculative work. Full papers are a maximum of eight (8) (excluding references) and short papers a maximum of four (4) (including references) double-column pages in ACM conference format (http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html). Authors may buy up to two (2) extra pages for accepted full papers. Page limits include figures, tables and appendices, but exclude references for full papers. As the review process is double-blind, removal of all identifying information from paper submissions is required (i.e. cite own work in third person). Papers not conforming to the above submission policies on formatting, page limits and the removal of identifying information will be automatically rejected. No-show policy: Any accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference and at least one full registration is required from a submission author for each accepted paper. A no-show of papers will result in exclusion from the ACM digital library proceedings. If circumstances arise such that authors are unable to present their papers at the conference, they must contact the PC co-chairs. ORGANIZATION ============ Computing Frontiers 2020 Chairs General Co-Chairs: Maurizio Palesi, University of Catania, IT Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT Program Co-Chairs: Cat Graves, Hewlett Packard Labs, US Eishi Arima, ITC University of Tokyo, JP Poster/Short Paper Co-Chairs: Kun-Chih Chen, National Sun Yat-set University, Taiwan Nader Bagherzadeh, University of Irvine, US Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT Carlo Sau, University of Cagliari, IT Workshops Chairs: Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT Registration Chair: Giuseppe Ascia, University of Catania, IT Publications Co-Chairs: Josef Weidendorfer, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, DE Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Finance Chair: Siddhartha Jana, Intel, US Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, IT Davide Patti, University of Catania, IT Salvatore Monteleone, IEA & ETIS Lab, U-Cergy, FR Industry/Special Session Co-Chairs: Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US Marco Aldinucci, University of Turin, IT Industrial Sponsorship Chair Amlan Ganguly, Rochester Institute of Technology, US Publicity Chairs: Salvatore Monteleone, IEA & ETIS Lab, U-Cergy, FR Anastasiia Butko, LBNL, US Kento Sato, RIKEN R-CCS, JP Web Chair: Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Simone Vuotto, University of Sassari, IT Computing Frontiers Steering Committee Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US John Feo, PNNL, US Hubertus Franke, New York University / IBM Research, US Paul Kelly, Imperial College London, UK Sally A. McKee, Clemson University, US Claudia Di Napoli, ICAR-CNR, IT Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Kento Sato, RIKEN R-CCS, JP Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, DE Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, DE Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US Josef Weidendorfer, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, DE FURTHER INFORMATION =================== For further information and updates, check the CF'20 website at http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2020/ From alexander.romanovsky at newcastle.ac.uk Tue Jan 28 04:39:56 2020 From: alexander.romanovsky at newcastle.ac.uk (Alexander Romanovsky) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:39:56 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CfPapers: European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020 Message-ID: <62E11DCC-ED33-4EF0-A73A-36669C1D5222@newcastle.ac.uk> The 16th European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020 September 7-10, 2020, Munich, Germany Call for Papers The European Dependable Computing Conference is a leading venue for presenting and discussing the latest research, industrial practice and innovations in dependable and secure computing. The European Dependable Computing Conference is a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems. The conference will cover a broad range of topics related to dependability and security, which includes, but is not limited to: * Hardware and software architectures of dependable systems; * Model-driven and formal engineering approaches; * Fault-tolerant networks & ultra-reliable low-latency communication; * Dependability modelling and tools; * Verification and validation methods; * Development of safety and security-critical systems; * Dependability and security of o critical infrastructures, e.g. smart energy grids, intelligent transportation systems, smart cities; o cyber-physical systems and (industrial) IoT; o cloud, fog, and edge computing systems; o data analytics applications & systems based on machine learning and artificial intelligence; o databases and distributed ledgers (incl. block chains); o artificial intelligence-based systems and components * Data protection and data privacy The conference is inviting submissions to its different tracks in the following categories: -Regular papers (up to 8 pages) solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems, covering any fault model, from traditional hardware and software faults to accidental and malicious human interactions. -Practical experience reports (up to 6 pages) dedicated to dependability in practice: industrial applications, experience in introducing dependability in industry, use of new or mature dependability approaches to new challenging problems or domains, etc. -Short papers (3-4 pages) describing preliminary research work (position papers) or a prototype/tool description, outlining the design or implementation of a software tool, or the prototyping of an operational system. The papers submitted to the conference should present an original contribution and formatted according to IEEE style: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair submission web page, and should clearly indicate in which category the paper is being submitted. Detailed indications about the paper format are provided in the paper submission page: http://edcc.dependability.org/papersubmission.html Best Paper Award Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and impact. Three distinguished papers will be selected among accepted papers and presented in a dedicated session of the conference program. Full research papers and practical experience reports are eligible for the distinction. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: March 17, 2020 Full Paper Submission: March 24, 2020 Author Notification: May 25, 2020 Camera-ready Paper: June 22, 2020 General chairs: Michael Paulitsch, Intel Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer Program Committee chair: Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Sweden Publicity chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Publication chair: Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa Students Forum chair: Marcello Cinque, Frederico II University of Naples For more information, visit: http://edcc.dependability.org/ From quihan1989 at gmail.com Mon Jan 27 09:16:41 2020 From: quihan1989 at gmail.com (Henry Q) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:16:41 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP The 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Cloud (SmartCloud 2020) Message-ID: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Cloud (SmartCloud 2020) June 26-28, Tokyo, Japan http://www.cloud-conf.net/smartcloud/2020/ *IMPORTANT DATES*Paper submission: *January 31st, 2020* Author notification: April 15th, 2020 Camera-Ready: May 1st, 2020 Registration: May 1st , 2020 Conference date: June 26-28, 2020 *CALL FOR PAPERS*As a novel technology, cloud computing implementations have been booming in recent years, which dramatically attract attentions from the industry, academia, and education. SmartCloud 2020 aims to collect recent academic achievements in novel techniques, developments, empirical studies, and new developments in cloud computing. The concentration of SmartCloud 2020 is enabling cloud computing to become an efficient approach for delivering intelligent services and forming advanced distributed systems, which are aligned with other updated technologies, such as data mining and big data. Empowering the existing infrastructure by using cloud computing techniques has been considered a dramatically significant issue for both academia and industry, which implies that intelligent cloud computing has a giant demand in multiple fields, from tele-health to e-learning, from vehicular systems to mobile applications. Therefore, our mission is to empower cloud computing the capability of ?smart? by providing a forum for scientists, engineers, researchers, and students to discuss and exchange their new ideas, novel results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of smart computing and cloud computing. SmartCloud 2020 aims to collect recent academic achievements in novel techniques, developments, empirical studies, and new developments in cloud computing. Innovative technical applications in clouds are highly encouraged. The objective of SmartCloud 2020 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange their new ideas, novel results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of smart computing and cloud computing. - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques - Green cloud computing applications and optimizations - Cyber threat intelligence - Novel mechanisms in cloud computing - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Cloud security and privacy issues - Cloud-assisted clinical data and knowledge management - Cloud computing for Healthcare - Big data security, Database security - Sensor network security issues in mobile cloud computing - Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations - Cloud computing and networking models - Ambient intelligence and intelligent service systems in cloud systems - Analysis and evaluation of cloud-based Healthcare - Pervasive computing applications and innovations in cloud computing - QoE / QoS for D2D communication in cloud computing - WiFi-Direct, WLAN-Direct, and cellular technology for empowering cloud computing - Nature inspired algorithms for resource management in cloud computing - Channel modulation for 5G networks in cloud computing - Cloud computing for D2D communication - Intelligent control mechanism for D2D communication in cloud computing - Cyber monitoring, incident response - Digital forensics in cloud computing - Data mining techniques and data warehouses in cloud computing - Heterogeneous architecture for cloud computing - Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud computing - Load balance for cloud computing -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From quihan1989 at gmail.com Fri Jan 31 05:03:01 2020 From: quihan1989 at gmail.com (Henry Q) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:03:01 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP - ICA3PP 2020 - 20th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing Message-ID: The 20th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2020) http://www.cloud-conf.net/ica3pp2020/ *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission: *May 1st, 2020* Author notification: July 1st, 2020 Camera-Ready: August 1st, 2020 Registration: August 1st, 2020 Conference date: Ocotber 2nd-4th, 2020 *CALL FOR PAPERS*ICA3PP 2020 is the 20th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian, Japan, Zhangjiajie, Granada, Helsinki, Guangzhou, and Melbourne, ICA3PP 2020 will be held in New York, USA. The objective of ICA3PP 2020 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2020 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e. architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: *Parallel and Distributed Architectures* - Parallel Architectures - Parallel Programming Paradigms - Heterogeneous Systems - Service-Oriented Architectures *Blockchain Systems* ? Legal, ethical and societal aspects of blockchain ? Blockchain application in social networking ? Smart contract and distributed ledger ? P2P network analysis for blockchain ? Blockchain-enabled cloud/edge computing ? Blockchain-enabled services *Software Systems and Programming Models* - Cluster, Distributed & Parallel Operating Systems and Middleware - Programming Models for Compute and Storage - Parallel File Systems and Storage - Parallel and Distributed Databases - Tools for Programming and Analysis of System Software *Distributed and Network-based Computing* - Mobile and Wireless Computing - Cloud, Grid, and Services Computing - Web and Internet Computing - Interconnection Networks - Network Simulations *Big Data and its Applications* - Architecture, Networks and Systems of Big Data - Big Data Applications, Algorithms and Data Structures - Research and Development Trends of Big Data - Big Data Benchmarking, Interoperability, Monitoring, Security, Privacy and Management - Distributed Data Analytics and Feature Extraction - Big Data Interoperability and Orchestration - Parallel Processing for Big Data *Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Applications* - Reliability and Fault-tolerant Computing - High-performance Scientific Computing - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - Resource Management and Scheduling - Multimedia in Parallel Computing - Parallel Computing in Bioinformatics - Parallel Machine Learning Algorithms - Industrial Applications *Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems* - Dependability Issues in Computer Networks and Communications - Dependability Issues in Distributed and Parallel Systems - Dependability of Software Defined Networks - Self-healing, Self-protecting and Fault-tolerant Systems - Network and Information Security - Trust, Security and Privacy in Cloud computing, Social Networks, and Internet of Things *Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing* - Social Computing and Analytics on Cyber-Physical Data - Smart Communities with Cyber-Physical Systems - Ubiquitous Sensing in Social Networks - Building Social Life Networks - Pervasive/Ubiquitous Control, Computing and Networking - Cyber-Physical Systems and Networks - Cyber-Physical Social Applications and Case Studies *Performance Modeling and Evaluation* - Performance of Parallel & Distributed Computing Systems - Software and Hardware Reliability, Testing, Verification and Validation - Tools and Environments for Parallel & Distributed Software Development - Optimization, Modeling and Simulation - Stochastic Analysis, Statistical Analysis and Simulation - Data Collection and Analysis - Planning, Scheduling and Quality-of-Service - Game theory, Economics and Control Theory -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Sat Feb 1 13:22:23 2020 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 18:22:23 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFW] HPDC2020 Call for Workshops - Deadline extended to February 7 Message-ID: <92B2146A-D716-44D8-A5D0-EB3EC49829FA@pnnl.gov> [Please accept our apologies for multiple postings.] -- NEWS: DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 7th -- The 29th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'20) Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2020 Sponsored by ACM SIGARCH http://www.hpdc.org/2020/workshops/call-for-workshops/ Overview The organizers of the 29th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'20) call for proposals for Workshops to be held the day preceding the main conference (June 23). The HPDC Workshops provide forums for discussion among researchers and practitioners on focused topics and/or emerging research areas relevant to HPDC. Workshops typically include some combination of invited talks, peer-reviewed papers, panel discussions, and work-in-progress talks. Proposers should design workshops for approximately 20-40 participants, lasting either one full day or one-half day, depending on interest and space constraints. Proposals for workshops on new topics are welcome, as are proposals to continue previously successful workshops. HPDC workshops proceedings will be published by ACM in the HPDC proceedings companion book. We also welcome proposals for agency PI meetings, of technical tutorials, or of user-group meetings that would engage HPDC attendees. Proposal Submission To Submit: Please email your proposal to Antonino Tumeo (antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov) with the title "HPDC Workshop Proposal" Formatting Guidelines * Workshop proposals should be formatted as a single PDF document of 2-4 pages, describing the following: * The full name and acronym of the workshop * A description of the theme of the workshop and its key topics ? proposers should be particularly careful in highlighting the focused nature of the theme of workshop * A description of the link to and relevance of the workshop for HPDC ? proposers should highlight how their proposed event can complete or completement the main program of HPDC * Whether the workshop is intended for one full day or for one half day * A summary of the intended audience * A description of the intended structure of the workshop (peer-reviewed articles, invited articles, invited talks, panels, etc.) * Details of the review process leading to acceptance to present in the workshop * If the workshop will have a call for papers, a tentative version of such CFP (which can reference to the description and theme of the workshop) * Tentative list of program committee members, if peer-review is to be used * Proposed names for invited speakers and panelists (if invited talks and panels are to be held), and their impacts on the topics discussed at the workshop * If workshop is going to have published papers, type of papers to be accepted and their length * A plan for attracting submissions and attendees to the workshop * A brief biographical information on the workshop organizers * Data about previous editions of the workshop (if any) including attendance, number of papers submitted and accepted Accepted workshops will need to be ready to set up a website and, if a paper submission process with peer review is going to be used, provide the submission link. Important Dates Deadline for Workshop Proposals: February 7, 2020 (EXTENDED) Notification of Workshop Acceptance: February 14, 2020 (EXTENDED) Workshop Submission Deadlines: Late March, 2020* Camera-Ready Deadline: Preferably Early May, 2020** Workshop Dates: June 23, 2020 * could change slightly, to allow for the flow of borderline articles from main conference to workshops ** could change slightly, to synchronize with the main conference proceedings From snir at illinois.edu Fri Jan 31 19:59:04 2020 From: snir at illinois.edu (Snir, Marc) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 00:59:04 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IEEE Workshop on High-Performance Storage (HPS) -- SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB 7TH. Message-ID: <9CE5C057-587A-4D63-B415-7DA9CEAB5261@illinois.edu> [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Workshop on High-Performance Storage (HPS), in conjunction with IPDPS?20, New Orleans, Louisiana http://snir.cs.illinois.edu/HPS/ Abstract submission (optional) deadline: January 25th, 2020 Paper submission deadline: [January 31st, 2020] NEW DEADLINE February 7th, 2020. Submission page: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=HPSWorkshopFullSubmission&site=ipdps2020 HPS is a newly established workshop that covers all aspects of High-Performance I/O and storage, including storage hardware, storage systems, libraries, and I/O intensive applications. The recent years are seeing an accelerated evolution of high-end storage systems, libraries, and services, due to several reasons: - Technology: The availability of an increasing number of persistent solid-state storage technologies that can replace either memory or disk is creating new opportunities for the structure of storage systems. - Performance Requirements: Disk-based parallel file systems cannot satisfy the performance needs of high-end systems. It is not clear how solid-state storage is best used to alleviate the problem. - Infrastructure evolution: HPC technology will not only be deployed in dedicated supercomputing centers in the future. ?Embedded HPC?, ?HPC in the box?, ?HPC in the loop?, ?HPC in the cloud?, ?HPC as a service?, ?near- to-real-time simulation? are concepts requiring new small-scale deployment environments for HPC. A federation of systems and functions with consistent mechanisms for managing I/O, storage and data processing across all participating systems will be required, to creating a ?continuum? of computing. - Application Evolution: Data analysis, including graph analytics and machine learning training, are becoming increasingly important high-end applications. I/O is often a major bottleneck for such application, both in a cloud environment and in an HPC environment ? especially when fast turnaround or integration of heavy computation with heavy analysis are required. - Virtualization and disaggregation: As virtualization and disaggregation become broadly used in cloud and HPC computing, the issues of virtualized storage and storage disaggregation have increasing importance. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and developers working on high-end storage systems, libraries and applications in HPC and clusters, and users of such systems that are interested in these issues. HPS 20120 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: ? High-end storage systems ? Parallel and distributed high-end storage organizations ? The synergy between different storage models (POSIX file system, object storage, key-value, row-oriented, and column-oriented databases) ? Storage and data processing architectures and systems for hybrid HPC/cloud/edge infrastructures ? Structures and interfaces for leveraging persistent solid-state storage ? High-performing I/O libraries and services ? I/O performance in high-end systems and applications ? Data reduction and compression ? Benchmarks and performance tools for high-end I/O ? Language and library support for data-centric computing ? Storage virtualization and disaggregation ? Active processing in storage technologies. ? Ephemeral storage media and consistency optimizations ? Storage architectures and systems for scalable stream-based processing ? Study cases of I/O services in support of various application domains (bioinformatics, scientific simulations, large observatories, and experimental facilities, etc.) Papers should present original research and provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Submission Info: The workshop will accept traditional research papers (8-10 pages) for in-depth topics and short papers (4-8 pages) for works in progress on hot topics. Paper format: single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submission URL: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=HPSWorkshopFullSubmission&site=ipdps2020 Important Dates: Abstract submission (optional) deadline: January 25th, 2020 Paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2020 Acceptance notification: February 28th, 2020 Camera-ready deadline: March 20th, 2020 Workshop: May 22th, 2020 Organization Conference Co-Chairs Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Program Co-Chairs Gabriel Antoniu, Inria, Rennes Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Program Committee John Bent, Seagate Systems, USA Angelos Bilas, Forth, Greece Andr? Brinkmann, U Mainz, Germany Suren Byna, LLBL, USA Franck Cappello, ANL, USA Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Alexandru Costan, Inria and INSA Rennes, France Matthieu Dorier, Argonne National Lab, USA Carlos Maltzan, University of California, Santa Cruz Bogdan Nicolae, Argonne National Lab, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Maria P?rez, UPM, Spain Dana Petcu, University West Timisoara, Romania Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Michael Schoettner, University of Dusseldorf, Germany Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan Kento Sato, RIKEN, Japan Weikuan Yu, Florida State University, USA For additional details, see web: http://snir.cs.illinois.edu/HPS/ Marc Snir email: chair at hpsworkshop.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jtacquaviva at ddn.com Mon Feb 3 16:02:26 2020 From: jtacquaviva at ddn.com (Jean-Thomas Acquaviva) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 21:02:26 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: WOPSSS 2020: Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems in conjunction with EuroSys20 Message-ID: [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] CALL FOR PAPERS WOPSSS 2020: Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems The fifth WOPSSS workshop will be held jointly with Eurosys?20 Venu: Aquila Atlantis Hotel Heraklion, Greece, April 27, 2020 Conference website http://wopsss.org Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wopsss2020 Submission deadline March 1, 2020 Topics: hpc storage file system performance analysis 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. This year, for our 5th edition, we propose to give a specific twist to address the system and operating system aspects of the storage stack. The addressed workloads remain HPC, Big Data, Cloud, and Artificial Intelligence. All these data intensive domains have to overcome the I/O bottleneck by analyzing the performance, detecting parameters restricting the performance and eventually providing I/O optimizations. WOPSSS intends to encourage the discussion of these topics between researchers and practitioners from both the academic and the industrial worlds. The workshop is held in conjunction with EuroSys'20. Submission Guidelines All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. * Papers need to be submitted via Easychair (http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wopsss2020) * Papers are required to be formatted according to ACM SIG proceedings (https://www.overleaf.com/read/vkypwtbmtrkv) * The submissions are "single-blind", i.e. submissions are allowed to include the author names. WOPSSS workshop invites two types of submissions: * Regular papers (8 pages) discussing original contributions, experience reports, or work in progress reports (supported by initial validations); * Contributed talks, summarized in 2 page extended abstracts, reporting positions and visions for the future, identifying new challenges and research venues, or reports for early ongoing work. List of Topics WOPSSS topics of interest include but are not limited to: * AI and Deep Learning workloads interactions with storage * 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 Committees Program Committee (to be completed) * Leonardo Bautista, BSC, Spain * Julien Bigot, Maison de la Simulation, France * Carlo Cavazzoni, CINECA, Italy * Konstantinos Chasapis, DDN, Germany * Stefano Cozzini, CNR, Italy * Julian Kunkel, University of Reading, UK * Jacques-Charles Lafoucri?re, CEA, France * Ramon Nou, BSC, Spain * Manolis Marazakis, FORTH, Greece * Marek Michalewicz, ICM, Poland * Judit Planas, EPFL, Switzerland * Benedikt Steinbusch, FZJ, Germany * St?phane Thiell, Stanfor University, USA * Josef Weidendorfer, Leibniz Computing Centre (LRZ), Germany Steering committee * Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, DDN, France * Jalil Boukhobza, Univ. Bretagne Occidentale, France * Andr? Brinkman, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany * Phlippe Deniel, CEA/DIF, France * Massimo Lamanna, CERN, Switzerland * Pedro Javier Garc?a, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Allen D. Malony, University of Oregon, USA Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to jtacquaviva at ddn.com ---- Jean-Thomas Acquaviva +33.615.95.6306 DDN Storage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From darrell at ucsc.edu Thu Feb 6 15:07:59 2020 From: darrell at ucsc.edu (Darrell Long) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 12:07:59 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] MSST 2020 Message-ID: Mass Storage will be held this year at Santa Clara University. I hope you will be able to submit a paper and to attend. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From sanmukh at hipc.org Tue Mar 10 23:57:35 2020 From: sanmukh at hipc.org (sanmukh at hipc.org) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:57:35 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call For Papers - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2020 Message-ID: ********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 16--19 December, 2020 in Pune India https://hipc.org/ PROGRAM CHAIRS HPC: Bora U?ar, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France Data Science: Gagan Agrawal, Augusta University, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC TRACKS Algorithms: Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, USA Applications: Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Architecture: Biswabandan Panda, IIT Kanpur, India System Software: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy DATA SCIENCE TRACKS Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore Scalable Systems and Software: Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA HiPC 2020 Call For Papers HiPC 2020 will be the 27th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. Up to two best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Algorithms. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models). Architecture. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * High performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable and high performance applications for execution on parallel, distributed and accelerated platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing, simulation and visualization applications, graph and irregular applications, data-intensive applications, science/engineering/industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences, etc.); * Methods, algorithms and optimizations for scaling applications on peta- and exa-scale platforms (e.g., co-design of hardware and software, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., GPUs, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); * Application benchmarks and workloads for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). DATA SCIENCE Scalable Algorithms and Analytics. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis; * Case studies, experimental studies and benchmarks for scalable algorithms and analytics; * Scaling and accelerating machine learning, deep learning and computer vision applications. Scalable Systems and Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES (2020) Abstract Submissions : June 8, 2020 Paper Submissions : June 15, 2020 Reviews for Rebuttals: August 4, 2020 Initial Submission Decisions: August 21, 2020 Revisions Due: September 22, 2020 Author Notifications: October 2, 2020 Camera Ready: October 16, 2020 Manuscript Guidelines Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates for details: ?LaTex Package (ZIP) ? will be linked ?Word Package (ZIP) ? will be linked Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper, for example in a separate paragraph in the introduction of the paper. The review process is ?single-blind? (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper), and that there will be a rebuttal period. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair at the email address below for further information or clarification. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference in person is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2020 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2020. __________________________________________________________________________ HiPC 2020 is co-sponsored by * IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) * HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with: * ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT); * ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH); * IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems; * Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT); * National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM). From thomas.prantl at uni-wuerzburg.de Fri Mar 13 05:11:47 2020 From: thomas.prantl at uni-wuerzburg.de (Thomas Prantl) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:11:47 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SEAC 2020 CFP Message-ID: <20200313091147.Horde.dQsYhKNHhOoDhUze5vcyyUa@webmail.uni-wuerzburg.de> Dear Colleagues, We apologize if you received multiple CFPs for the Workshop on Self-aware Computing Systems 2020 (SeAC 2020) at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS), August 17-21, Washington DC, USA A short version of the CFP follows, the full version can be found here: http://seac2020.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ ========================================== 2020 Workshop On Self-Aware Computing (SEAC 2020) http://seac2020.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ ========================================== Deadline for paper and talk submissions: 12 June 2020 The workshop on self-aware computing (SeAC) provides a forum to foster interaction and collaborations between the respective research communities, raising the awareness about related research efforts and synergies that can be exploited to advance the state of the art. The workshop was initiated by the 2015 Dagstuhl Seminar 15041 on model-driven algorithms and architectures for self-aware computing systems, which brought together 45 international experts. This workshop is interested in all the topics concerning self-aware computing systems; however, for this year, we have a special theme on evaluation of SeAC systems. Please find below several examples of possible topics: ? Fundamental science and theory of self-aware systems ? Levels and aspects of self-aware systems ? Architectures for individual and collective systems ? Methods and algorithms for model learning (selfmodeling) and reasoning ? Self-adaptation in individual and collective systems ? Synthesis and verification metrics and benchmarks ? Tool support for evaluation and measurements, and quality assurance ? Open challenges and future research directions ? Applications and case studies: cloud computing, cyberphysical systems, data centers, dependable computing, industrial internet / industry 4.0, internet of things, mobile computing, service-oriented systems, smart buildings, smart city, smart grid / energy management, smart factory, traffic management, autonomous robotics, and space applications. The workshop participants will be selected based on their experience and ideas related to the field of self-aware computing. There are two ways to participate: i) present a talk without a respective paper published in the workshop proceedings, ii) submit a paper to be presented at the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings. ? Full workshop paper limited to 6 pages (double column, IEEE format, including references) ? Short workshop paper limited to 4 pages (double column, IEEE format, including references) ? Talk extended abstract limited to 1 page (without formatting restrictions) We kindly invite PhD students to unleash their creativity and submit their ideas about the application of the IT solutions in everyday life and in particular in autonomic and self-managing systems. All the papers must be written in English and must conform to the double-column IEEE formatting guidelines. At least three PC members will review each submission. The authors will be notified about acceptance before the ACSOS 2020 early registration deadline. At least one author of each accepted submission must register and present the paper. All workshop papers will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. Submission can be done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seac2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Christian Krupitzer Research Group Leader at the Chair of Computer Science II - Software Engineering held by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Samuel Kounev University of W?rzburg Am Hubland, Informatikgeb?ude (M2), Room A110 97074 W?rzburg, Germany Phone: +49 (931) 31 83252, Fax: +49 (931) 31-83252 https://go.uniwue.de/krupitzer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M.Sc. Thomas Prantl Doctoral Researcher Chair of Software Engineering Department of Computer Science University of W?rzburg Am Hubland, Informatikgeb?ude (M2), Room A118 97074 W?rzburg, Germany Phone: +49 (931) 31 80191 http://go.uni-wuerzburg.de/prantl -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The European Dependable Computing Conference is a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems. The conference will cover a broad range of topics related to dependability and security, which includes, but is not limited to: * Hardware and software architectures of dependable systems; * Model-driven and formal engineering approaches; * Fault-tolerant networks & ultra-reliable low-latency communication; * Dependability modelling and tools; * Verification and validation methods; * Development of safety and security-critical systems; * Dependability and security of o critical infrastructures, e.g. smart energy grids, intelligent transportation systems, smart cities; o cyber-physical systems and (industrial) IoT; o cloud, fog, and edge computing systems; o data analytics applications & systems based on machine learning and artificial intelligence; o databases and distributed ledgers (incl. block chains); o artificial intelligence-based systems and components * Data protection and data privacy The conference is inviting submissions to its different tracks in the following categories: -Regular papers (up to 8 pages) solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems, covering any fault model, from traditional hardware and software faults to accidental and malicious human interactions. -Practical experience reports (up to 6 pages) dedicated to dependability in practice: industrial applications, experience in introducing dependability in industry, use of new or mature dependability approaches to new challenging problems or domains, etc. -Short papers (3-4 pages) describing preliminary research work (position papers) or a prototype/tool description, outlining the design or implementation of a software tool, or the prototyping of an operational system. The papers submitted to the conference should present an original contribution and formatted according to IEEE style: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair submission web page, and should clearly indicate in which category the paper is being submitted. Detailed indications about the paper format are provided in the paper submission page: http://edcc.dependability.org/papersubmission.html Best Paper Award Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and impact. Three distinguished papers will be selected among accepted papers and presented in a dedicated session of the conference program. Full research papers and practical experience reports are eligible for the distinction. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: (March 17, 2020) - new: April 8, 2020 Full Paper Submission: (March 24, 2020) - new: April 15, 2020 Author Notification: (May 25, 2020) - new: June 1, 2020 Camera-ready Paper: June 22, 2020 General chairs: Michael Paulitsch, Intel Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer Program Committee chair: Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Sweden Publicity chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Publication chair: Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa Students Forum chair: Marcello Cinque, Frederico II University of Naples For more information, visit: http://edcc.dependability.org/ From sungjin.lee at dgist.ac.kr Thu Mar 19 04:21:13 2020 From: sungjin.lee at dgist.ac.kr (Sungjin Lee) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:21:13 +0900 Subject: [Storage-research-list] NVMSA 2020 - Call for Papers Message-ID: (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 9th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA 2020) Sokcho, Korea, August 19-21, 2020 https://nvmsa2020.github.io/ Important Dates: Abstract Submission: April 17, 2020 23:59 UTC+9 Paper Submission: April 24, 2020 23:59 UTC+9 Acceptance Notification: May 29, 2020 Camera-ready Deadline: June 26, 2020 Conference Date: August 19-21, 2020 Call For Papers: NVMSA is a premier conference in the area of non-volatile memory systems and emerging memory technologies. It provides a fantastic opportunity for global non-volatile memory researchers from different communities to discuss and exchange knowledge, ideas and insights, and to facilitate the establishment of potential collaborations that can speed up the progress in the design and application of NVMs. An expanded technical program will be offered in NVMSA 2020 for the audience from academia and industry. Papers are solicited from various topics on NVMs and related areas including, but not limited to: Device/Circuit Design of NVM Systems: - Emerging NVM Circuit Design - NVM Device Design - Error Correction for NVMs - Non-volatile Logic Circuit - Low Power NVM Circuit NVM Architecture and Systems: - Non-volatile Registers - Non-volatile Memory Architectures - Non-volatile Cache Design - NVM Neuromorphic Architectures - NVDIMM NVM Storage: - Operating System Support for NVM - Compiler Optimization for NVM - NVM-based Storage Software - NVM-based Databases - NVM Controller Design NVM Applications: - In-memory Computing - NVM for Big Data Analytics - NVM in Mobile Healthcare Applications - NVM in Wearable Applications - NVM in the Internet of Things Paper Submission: Both research and industry track papers are solicited. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format. The submitted manuscripts must describe original work not previously published and not concurrently submitted elsewhere. Submissions must be no more than 6 pages in the IEEE conference proceedings format (two-column, single-space). Each paper is peer-reviewed by the program committee members, and the authors are notified of either "accepted for a long presentation", "accepted for a short presentation", or "reject". A long presentation will be given a 30-mins slot (including Q&As) and a short presentation will be given a 20-mins slot (including Q&As) at the conference. Note that authors of a short presentation do not need to shorten the paper itself. Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore and will be EI indexed. Best papers will be fast tracked to ACM Transactions on Storage for possible publication. Authors of non-accepted papers are encouraged to submit a poster. The authors should submit their papers through the submission web page at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nvmsa2020#. The reviews are single-blinded. The names and affiliations of the authors are visible to the reviewers via EasyChair. Call For Posters: We solicit poster submissions of early stage work, especially from students and young researchers to promote fruitful discussions with other participants and speed up the research. A poster submission must describe the content of the poster, such as the motivation of the work, the idea to approach the problem, and preliminary results (if any). Authors of non-accepted papers are encouraged to submit poster descriptions. A poster description must be 1 or 2 pages in the IEEE conference proceedings format (two-column, single-space). Please note that accepted poster descriptions will be included in the adjunct proceedings, but will *NOT* be included in the IEEE Xplore nor EI indexed. * Organizing Committee [General Co-Chairs] Hyunok Oh, Hanyang University, Korea Jongmoo Choi, Dankook University, Korea [TPC Co-Chairs] Youngjae Kim, Sogang University, Korea Guangyu Sun, Peking University, Korea [Local Chair] Sungjoo Yoo, Seoul National University, Korea [Finance Co-Chairs] Jiwon Seo, Hanyang University, Korea Kyoungwoo Lee, Yonsei University, Korea [Publicity Co-Chairs] Sungjin Lee, DGIST, Korea Dongchul Park, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea [Publication Chair] Youngmin Yi, University of Seoul, Korea [Web Chair] Junghee Lee, Korea University, Korea * Program Committee Chundong Wang, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Dong Hyun Kang, Dongguk University-Gyeongju, Korea Dongchul Park, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea Donghyun Kang, Dongguk University, Korea Dongkun Shin, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Euiseong Seo, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Feng Chen, Louisiana State University, USA Gunjae Koo, Korea University, Korea Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Hyokyung Bahn, Ewha University, Korea Hyunok Oh, Hanyang University, Korea Jalil Boukhobza, Universit? de Bretagne Occidentale, France Jingtong Hu, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jinkyu Jeong, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Lei Ju, Shandong University, China Liang Shi, East China Normal University, China Ming-Chang Yang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Mingzhe Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Myoungsoo Jung, KAIST, Korea Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Preeti Panda, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Qi Liu, Institute of Microelectronics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Renhai Chen, Tianjin University, China Ronald Demara, University of Central Florida, USA Sam H. Noh, UNIST, Korea Sang-Hoon Kim, Ajou University, Korea Sejin Kwon, Kangwon University, Korea Sungjin Lee, DGIST, Korea Sungroh Yoon, Seoul National University, Korea Sungyong Ahn, Pusan University, Korea Wang Kang, Beihang University, China Xueqing Li, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Youjip Won, KAIST, Korea Youngjin Kwon, KAIST, Korea Young-ri Choi, UNIST, Korea Youtao Zhang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Yuan-Hao Chang, Institute of Informaiton Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Steering Committee [Steering Committee Chair] Yiran Chen, Duke University, US [Steering Committee Members] Yuan-Hao Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Nikil Dutt, University of California, Irvine, US Toshio Endo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Hiroshi Nakamura, The University of Tokyo, Japan Edwin Sha, East China Normal University, China Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University, China Lionel Torres, University of Montpellier 2, France Youjip Won, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea Chun (Jason) Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sungjoo Yoo, Seoul National University, Korea Sam H. 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KEY FACTS: expected Proceedings: IEEE Digital Library; indexing: Web of Science (since 2012); 22 Technical Sessions in 5 Tracks; Doctoral Symposium; conference fee covers 4 lunches and 3 social events; Sofia ? capital of Bulgaria, city history goes back to Roman times (with some, recently uncovered and made available to see, fascinating ruins of Serdika ? which is how Sofia was known during Tracian and Roman times). FedCSIS is an annual international conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed forum in computer science and information systems. We invite researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Technical Sessions focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems. As in the previous years, FedCSIS 2020 will host a data mining challenge. It will be organized on a, recently re-designed, Knowledge Pit platform: https://knowledgepit.ml The specific topic will be announced shortly, please check the competition site (or the conference portal). There will also be a special session devoted to this challenge at the FedCSIS 2020 conference. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This already includes Proceedings of FedCSIS 2018 (we are awaiting the decision for the FedCSIS 2019). Information about FedCSIS indexing / bibliometry / rankings can be found at: https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/indexation. FedCSIS TRACKS AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS The FedCSIS 2020 consists of five conference Tracks, hosting Technical Sessions: Track 1: Artificial Intelligence * Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (15th Symposium AAIA'20) * Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval (9th International Workshop ASIR'20) * Formal Approaches to Vagueness in Relation to Mereology (1st Symposium FVRM'20) * Language Technologies and Applications (5th Workshop LTA'20) * Computational Optimization (13th Workshop WCO'20) Track 2: Computer Science & Systems * Advances in Computer Science & Systems (ACSS'20) * Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars (1st Workshop 4A'20) * Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (13th Workshop CANA'20) * Multimedia Applications and Processing (13th Symposium MMAP'20) * Scalable Computing (11th Workshop WSC'20) Track 3: Network Systems and Applications * Advances in Network Systems and Applications (ANSA'20) * Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications (4rd Workshop IoT-ECAW'20) * Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust (1st International Forum NEMESIS'20) Track 4: Information Systems and Technologies * Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (AIST'20) * Data Science in Health (DSH'19) (2nd Special Session DSH'20) * Information Systems Management (15th Conference ISM'20) * Knowledge Acquisition and Management (26th Conference KAM'20) Track 5: Software and System Engineering * Advances in Software and System Engineering (ASSE'20) * Cyber-Physical Systems (7th Workshop IWCPS?20) * Lean and Agile Software Development (4th International Conference LASD'20) * Model Driven Approaches in System Development (6th Workshop MDASD'20) * Software Engineering (40th IEEE Workshop SEW?20) Track 6: DS-RAIT'20 - 7th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * Christian Blum, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain Keynote title: Are you a Hybrid? Yes, of course, everyone is a Hybrid nowadays! * George Boustras, European University Cyprus Keynote title: Critical Infrastructure Protection ? on the interface of safety and security * Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Keynote title: From Digital Transformation to Digital Ubiquity: The Role of Enterprise Modeling PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION + Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2020 (strict deadline, no extensions, submission system will be opened in the first week of March). + Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick and 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 Technical Session 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, 2020, 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) + Position paper submission: June 9, 2020 + Author notification: June 30, 2020 + Final paper submission and registration: July 15, 2020 + Conference date: September 6-9, 2020 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat at fedcsis.org FedCSIS in Social Media: 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 michael.kuhn at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar 31 05:53:36 2020 From: michael.kuhn at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Michael Kuhn) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 11:53:36 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CfP: Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of HPC Storage Systems (CHAOSS) Message-ID: <2a586c8b68ed057e4ba6f224d4da0e2bb4e4e345.camel@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> # First International Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of HPC Storage Systems (CHAOSS) The workshop is aimed at researchers, developers of scientific applications, engineers and everyone interested in the evolution of HPC storage systems. As the developments of computing power, storage and network technologies continue to diverge, the performance gap between them widens. This trend, combined with the growing data volumes, results in I/O and storage bottlenecks that become increasingly serious especially for large-scale HPC storage systems. The hierarchy of different storage technologies to ease this situation leads to a complex environment which will become even more challenging for future exascale systems. This workshop is a venue for papers exploring topics related to data organization and management along with the impacts of multi-tier memory and storage for optimizing application throughput. It will take place at the Euro-Par 2020 conference in Warsaw, Poland on either August 24 or 25, 2020. More information is available at: https://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/events/2020/chaoss ## Important Dates Paper Submission: May 8, 2020 Notification to Authors: June 30, 2020 Registration: July 10, 2020 Camera-Ready Deadline (Informal Proceedings): July 10, 2020 Workshop Dates: August 24 or 25, 2020 Camera-Ready Deadline: September 11, 2020 ## Submission Guidelines Papers should not exceed 12 pages (including title, text, figures, appendices and references). Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but will not be published in the proceedings. Papers must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS guidelines available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines . Accepted papers will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. One author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and present the paper. Submissions will be submitted and managed via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2020workshop ## Topics of Interest Submissions may be more hands-on than research papers and we therefore explicitly encourage submissions in the early stages of research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Kernel and user space file/storage systems - Parallel and distributed file/storage systems - Data management approaches for heterogeneous storage systems - Management of self-describing data formats - Metadata management - Approaches using query and database interfaces - Hybrid solutions using file systems and databases - Optimized indexing techniques - Data organizations to support online workflows - Domain-specific data management solutions - Related experiences from users: what worked, what didn't? ## Program Committee - Gabriel Antoniu (INRIA) - Konstantinos Chasapis (DDN) - Andreas Dilger (DDN) - Kira Duwe (UHH) - Wolfgang Frings (JSC) - Elsa Gonsiororowski (LLNL) - Anthony Kougkas (IIT) - Michael Kuhn (UHH) - Margaret Lawson (UIUC SNL) - Jay Lofstead (SNL) - Johann Lombardi (Intel) - Jakob L?ttgau (DKRZ) - Anna Queralt (BSC) - Yue Zhu (FSU) From akiyama at ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Apr 7 08:47:13 2020 From: akiyama at ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Soramichi Akiyama) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 21:47:13 +0900 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2020) Message-ID: <20200407214713.f03da5e35bb5924e77b802b2@ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Dear members of the Storage-reserach mailing list, Below please find the call for papers of the 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2020), which will be held in Tsukuba, Japan on 24 - 25 August, 2020. The paper deadline remain unchanged (May 25th) from the original plan even though it is still unclear if we can manage to have the workshop offline. Best regards, Soramichi Akiyama Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan ================================================================ 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2020) https://www.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/apsys2020/ Tsukuba, Japan, August 24-25, 2020 * IMPORTANT NOTICE The APSys organizing committee is closely monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak. Currently, the submission deadlines and the conference dates remain unchanged. We are considering alternative arrangements if necessary. * Call for Papers The 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems will be held in Tsukuba, Japan. Building on the success of its predecessors, APSys 2020 will continue to be a lively forum for systems researchers and practitioners across the world to meet, interact, and collaborate with their peers from the Asia/Pacific region. APSys takes a broad view of systems. This includes operating systems, virtualization, storage systems, distributed systems, mobile and embedded systems, cloud and data center systems, edge computing, data/graph analytics, networking, security and privacy, dependability, debugging, and manageability, as well as new systems contributions influenced by other fields such as hardware architecture, programming languages, machine learning and AI, databases, verification, social organization, and cryptocurrency. The workshop favors works with an experimental flavor such as measurement and prototyping. * Submission Guidelines Submissions should have six or fewer pages of technical content, including all text, figures, tables, appendices, etc., formatted in standard ACM two-column conference style with 10-pt font size. Bibliographic references are not included in the 6-page limit. Reviewing will be double-blind: no author or affiliation information should appear in the submission. The authors should additionally follow the best practice in order not to disclose their identities implicitly. A submission may present preliminary results, propose a new research direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative viewpoint on an important systems topic. Papers will be selected based on their likelihood of generating insightful technical discussions at the workshop and influencing future systems research. Relevant attributes include originality, technical merit, clarity, and technical relevance. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the workshop, which will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Consistent with standard scholarly practice, the authors should not have substantially similar work in review anywhere else. Submissions can be made online at the APSys 2020 submission site. https://apsys20.hotcrp.com/. * Important Dates Submission due: May 25 (Mon), 2020, 23:59:59 EDT (Hard Deadline) Notification to authors: June 19 (Fri), 2020 Camera ready due: July 6 (Mon), 2020 Poster submission due: June 26 (Fri), 2020 Poster notification: June 30 (Tue), 2020 Workshop: August 24-25, 2020 * Organizing Committee General Chair Kenichi Kourai (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Program Chairs Patrick P. C. Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Taesoo Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology) Local Arrangement Chair Takahiro Hirofuchi (National Institute of Advanced Insdustrial Science and Technology) Treasurer Katsuya Matsubara (Future University Hakodate) Registration Chair Hiroshi Yamada (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) Publication Chair Takahiro Shinagawa (The University of Tokyo) Travel Grant Chair Tatsuhiro Chiba (IBM Research) Poster Chair Yongkun Li (University of Science and Technology of China) Publicity Chair Soramichi Akiyama (The University of Tokyo) From yuw at cs.fsu.edu Wed Apr 8 08:50:40 2020 From: yuw at cs.fsu.edu (Weikuan Yu) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 08:50:40 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] JCST--Special Section on Selected I/O Technologies for High-Performance Computing and Data Analytics Message-ID: <0B9A6234-E305-4231-9AF3-276D910A52D2@cs.fsu.edu> Dear All, With the explosive growth of colossal data from various academic and industrial sectors, many High-Performance Computing (HPC) and data analytics systems have been developed to meet the needs of data collection, processing and analysis. Accordingly, many research groups around the world have explored unconventional and cutting-edge ideas for the management of storage and I/O. For the I/O research community to get a global picture on the current state-of-the-art and vibrant progress, invited by Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST, http://jcst.ict.ac.cn), Prof. Xian-He Sun of Illinois Institute of Technology and Prof. Weikuan Yu of Florida State University organized the Special Section on Selected I/O Technologies for High-Performance Computing and Data Analytics, which consists of the following eight high-quality papers from China, Europe, Japan, and the United States. Due to COVID-19, we make this special issue free. We hope that a great number of readers and users find this special section interesting and useful for their respective needs and endeavors. Thanks a lot for the authors' contributions and all the reviewers' valuable time and efforts. Thank you. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 05 January 2020, Volume 35 Issue 1 Special Section on Selected I/O Technologies for High-Performance Computing and Data Analytics Preface Xian-He Sun, Weikuan Yu Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2020, 35 (1): 1-3. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-020-0001-9 PDF Ad Hoc File Systems for High-Performance Computing Andr? Brinkmann, Kathryn Mohror, Weikuan Yu, Philip Carns, Toni Cortes, Scott A. Klasky, Alberto Miranda, Franz-Josef Pfreundt, Robert B. Ross, Marc-Andr? Vef Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2020, 35 (1): 4-26. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-020-9801-1 PDF Highlights Chinese Summary Abstract Storage backends of parallel compute clusters are still based mostly on magnetic disks, while newer and faster storage technologies such as flash-based SSDs or non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) are deployed within compute nodes. Including these new storage technologies into scientific workflows is unfortunately today a mostly manual task, and most scientists therefore do not take advantage of the faster storage media. One approach to systematically include nodelocal SSDs or NVRAMs into scientific workflows is to deploy ad hoc file systems over a set of compute nodes, which serve as temporary storage systems for single applications or longer-running campaigns. This paper presents results from the Dagstuhl Seminar 17202 "Challenges and Opportunities of User-Level File Systems for HPC" and discusses application scenarios as well as design strategies for ad hoc file systems using node-local storage media. The discussion includes open research questions, such as how to couple ad hoc file systems with the batch scheduling environment and how to schedule stage-in and stage-out processes of data between the storage backend and the ad hoc file systems. Also presented are strategies to build ad hoc file systems by using reusable components for networking and how to improve storage device compatibility. Various interfaces and semantics are presented, for example those used by the three ad hoc file systems BeeOND, GekkoFS, and BurstFS. Their presentation covers a range from file systems running in production to cutting-edge research focusing on reaching the performance limits of the underlying devices. Design and Implementation of the Tianhe-2 Data Storage and Management System Yu-Tong Lu, Peng Cheng, Zhi-Guang Chen Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2020, 35 (1): 27-46. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-020-9799-4 PDF Highlights Chinese Summary Abstract With the convergence of high-performance computing (HPC), big data and artificial intelligence (AI), the HPC community is pushing for "triple use" systems to expedite scientific discoveries. However, supporting these converged applications on HPC systems presents formidable challenges in terms of storage and data management due to the explosive growth of scientific data and the fundamental differences in I/O characteristics among HPC, big data and AI workloads. In this paper, we discuss the driving force behind the converging trend, highlight three data management challenges, and summarize our efforts in addressing these data management challenges on a typical HPC system at the parallel file system, data management middleware, and user application levels. As HPC systems are approaching the border of exascale computing, this paper sheds light on how to enable application-driven data management as a preliminary step toward the deep convergence of exascale computing ecosystems, big data, and AI. Lessons Learned from Optimizing the Sunway Storage System for Higher Application I/O Performance Qi Chen, Kang Chen, Zuo-Ning Chen, Wei Xue, Xu Ji, Bin Yang Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2020, 35 (1): 47-60. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-020-9798-5 PDF Highlights Chinese Summary Abstract It is hard for applications to make full utilization of the peak bandwidth of the storage system in highperformance computers because of I/O interferences, storage resource misallocations and complex long I/O paths. We performed several studies to bridge this gap in the Sunway storage system, which serves the supercomputer Sunway TaihuLight. To locate these issues and connections between them, an end-to-end performance monitoring and diagnosis tool was developed to understand I/O behaviors of applications and the system. With the help of the tool, we were about to find out the root causes of such performance barriers at the I/O forwarding layer and the parallel file system layer. An application-aware I/O forwarding allocation framework was used to address the I/O interferences and resource misallocations at the I/O forwarding layer. A performance-aware data placement mechanism was proposed to mitigate the impact of I/O interferences and performance variations of storage devices in the PFS. Together, applications obtained much better I/O performance. During the process, we also proposed a lightweight storage stack to shorten the I/O path of applications with N-N I/O pattern. This paper summarizes these studies and presents the lessons learned from the process. Gfarm/BB?Gfarm File System for Node-Local Burst Buffer Osamu Tatebe, Shukuko Moriwake, Yoshihiro Oyama Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2020, 35 (1): 61-71. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-020-9803-z PDF Highlights Chinese Summary Abstract Burst buffer has become a major component to meet the I/O performance requirement of HPC bursty traffic. This paper proposes Gfarm/BB that is a file system for a burst buffer efficiently exploiting node-local storage systems. Although node-local storages improve storage performance, they are only available during the job allocation. Gfarm/BB should have better access and metadata performance while it should be constructed on-demand before the job execution. To improve the read and write performance, it exploits the file descriptor passing and remote direct memory access (RDMA). It improves the metadata performance by omitting the persistency and the redundancy since it is a temporal file system. Using RDMA, writes and reads bandwidth are improved by 1.7x and 2.2x compared with IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB), respectively. It achieves 14 700 operations per second in the directory creation performance, which is 13.4x faster than the fully persistent and redundant case. The construction of Gfarm/BB takes 0.31 seconds using 2 nodes. IOR benchmark and ARGOT-IO application I/O benchmark show the scalable performance improvement by exploiting the locality of node-local storages. Compared with BeeOND, Gfarm/BB shows 2.6x and 2.4x better performance in IOR write and read benchmarks, respectively, and it shows 2.5x better performance in ARGOT-IO. GekkoFS?A Temporary Burst Buffer File System for HPC Applications Marc-Andr? Vef, Nafiseh Moti, Tim S??, Markus Tacke, Tommaso Tocci, Ramon Nou, Alberto Miranda, Toni Cortes, Andr? Brinkmann Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2020, 35 (1): 72-91. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-020-9797-6 PDF Highlights Chinese Summary Abstract Many scientific fields increasingly use high-performance computing (HPC) to process and analyze massive amounts of experimental data while storage systems in today's HPC environments have to cope with new access patterns. These patterns include many metadata operations, small I/O requests, or randomized file I/O, while general-purpose parallel file systems have been optimized for sequential shared access to large files. Burst buffer file systems create a separate file system that applications can use to store temporary data. They aggregate node-local storage available within the compute nodes or use dedicated SSD clusters and offer a peak bandwidth higher than that of the backend parallel file system without interfering with it. However, burst buffer file systems typically offer many features that a scientific application, running in isolation for a limited amount of time, does not require. We present GekkoFS, a temporary, highly-scalable file system which has been specifically optimized for the aforementioned use cases. GekkoFS provides relaxed POSIX semantics which only offers features which are actually required by most (not all) applications. GekkoFS is, therefore, able to provide scalable I/O performance and reaches millions of metadata operations already for a small number of nodes, significantly outperforming the capabilities of common parallel file systems. I/O Acceleration via Multi-Tiered Data Buffering and Prefetching Anthony Kougkas, Hariharan Devarajan, Xian-He Sun Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2020, 35 (1): 92-120. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-020-9781-1 PDF Highlights Chinese Summary Abstract Modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems are adding extra layers to the memory and storage hierarchy, named deep memory and storage hierarchy (DMSH), to increase I/O performance. New hardware technologies, such as NVMe and SSD, have been introduced in burst buffer installations to reduce the pressure for external storage and boost the burstiness of modern I/O systems. The DMSH has demonstrated its strength and potential in practice. However, each layer of DMSH is an independent heterogeneous system and data movement among more layers is significantly more complex even without considering heterogeneity. How to efficiently utilize the DMSH is a subject of research facing the HPC community. Further, accessing data with a high-throughput and low-latency is more imperative than ever. Data prefetching is a well-known technique for hiding read latency by requesting data before it is needed to move it from a high-latency medium (e.g., disk) to a low-latency one (e.g., main memory). However, existing solutions do not consider the new deep memory and storage hierarchy and also suffer from under-utilization of prefetching resources and unnecessary evictions. Additionally, existing approaches implement a client-pull model where understanding the application's I/O behavior drives prefetching decisions. Moving towards exascale, where machines run multiple applications concurrently by accessing files in a workflow, a more data-centric approach resolves challenges such as cache pollution and redundancy. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of Hermes:a new, heterogeneous-aware, multi-tiered, dynamic, and distributed I/O buffering system. Hermes enables, manages, supervises, and, in some sense, extends I/O buffering to fully integrate into the DMSH. We introduce three novel data placement policies to efficiently utilize all layers and we present three novel techniques to perform memory, metadata, and communication management in hierarchical buffering systems. Additionally, we demonstrate the benefits of a truly hierarchical data prefetcher that adopts a server-push approach to data prefetching. Our evaluation shows that, in addition to automatic data movement through the hierarchy, Hermes can significantly accelerate I/O and outperforms by more than 2x state-of-the-art buffering platforms. Lastly, results show 10%-35% performance gains over existing prefetchers and over 50% when compared to systems with no prefetching. Mochi: Composing Data Services for High-Performance Computing Environments Robert B. Ross, George Amvrosiadis, Philip Carns, Charles D. Cranor, Matthieu Dorier, Kevin Harms, Greg Ganger, Garth Gibson, Samuel K. Gutierrez, Robert Latham, Bob Robey, Dana Robinson, Bradley Settlemyer, Galen Shipman, Shane Snyder, Jerome Soumagne, Qing Zheng Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2020, 35 (1): 121-144. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-020-9802-0 PDF Highlights Chinese Summary Abstract Technology enhancements and the growing breadth of application workflows running on high-performance computing (HPC) platforms drive the development of new data services that provide high performance on these new platforms, provide capable and productive interfaces and abstractions for a variety of applications, and are readily adapted when new technologies are deployed. The Mochi framework enables composition of specialized distributed data services from a collection of connectable modules and subservices. Rather than forcing all applications to use a one-size-fits-all data staging and I/O software configuration, Mochi allows each application to use a data service specialized to its needs and access patterns. This paper introduces the Mochi framework and methodology. The Mochi core components and microservices are described. Examples of the application of the Mochi methodology to the development of four specialized services are detailed. Finally, a performance evaluation of a Mochi core component, a Mochi microservice, and a composed service providing an object model is performed. The paper concludes by positioning Mochi relative to related work in the HPC space and indicating directions for future work. ExaHDF5: Delivering Efficient Parallel I/O on Exascale Computing Systems Suren Byna, M. Scot Breitenfeld, Bin Dong, Quincey Koziol, Elena Pourmal, Dana Robinson, Jerome Soumagne, Houjun Tang, Venkatram Vishwanath, Richard Warren Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2020, 35 (1): 145-160. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-020-9822-9 PDF Highlights Chinese Summary Abstract Scientific applications at exascale generate and analyze massive amounts of data. A critical requirement of these applications is the capability to access and manage this data efficiently on exascale systems. Parallel I/O, the key technology enables moving data between compute nodes and storage, faces monumental challenges from new applications, memory, and storage architectures considered in the designs of exascale systems. As the storage hierarchy is expanding to include node-local persistent memory, burst buffers, etc., as well as disk-based storage, data movement among these layers must be efficient. Parallel I/O libraries of the future should be capable of handling file sizes of many terabytes and beyond. In this paper, we describe new capabilities we have developed in Hierarchical Data Format version 5 (HDF5), the most popular parallel I/O library for scientific applications. HDF5 is one of the most used libraries at the leadership computing facilities for performing parallel I/O on existing HPC systems. The state-of-the-art features we describe include:Virtual Object Layer (VOL), Data Elevator, asynchronous I/O, full-featured single-writer and multiple-reader (Full SWMR), and parallel querying. In this paper, we introduce these features, their implementations, and the performance and feature benefits to applications and other libraries. Best Regards, Editorial Office Journal of Computer Science and Technology P.O.Box 2704, Beijing 100190 P.R.China Tel?(8610)62610746; 62600340 Online Submission: https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jcst E-mail:jcst at ict.ac.cn http://jcst.ict.ac.cn From irodero at rutgers.edu Sun Apr 12 11:20:05 2020 From: irodero at rutgers.edu (Ivan Rodero) Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:20:05 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] State of the Journal | IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Newsletter In-Reply-To: <49A33B98-691C-4497-B2D6-6FDB3FBB497A@rutgers.edu> References: <950285C5-18D5-413B-9B8E-F9BD5D527034@rutgers.edu> <49A33B98-691C-4497-B2D6-6FDB3FBB497A@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <440BF00F-8173-4735-8AD3-B0791516132C@ored.rutgers.edu> IEEE TPDS Newsletter // March 2020 View in browser ? [IEEE Computer Society and Newsletter Logos] TPDS CONFERENCES CALL FOR PAPERS CSDL State of the Journal TPDS continues to be one of the healthiest IEEE Transactions. 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Best regards, Soramichi Akiyama, University of Tokyo ================================================================ 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2020) https://www.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/apsys2020/ August 24-25, 2020 * IMPORTANT NOTICE The health and safety of all workshop participants are our first priority. After evaluating the current COVID-19 situation, we decided that APSys 2020 will be held as a virtual conference on August 24-25, 2020. The workshop proceedings will be published as planned. * Call for Papers The 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems will be held in Tsukuba, Japan. Building on the success of its predecessors, APSys 2020 will continue to be a lively forum for systems researchers and practitioners across the world to meet, interact, and collaborate with their peers from the Asia/Pacific region. APSys takes a broad view of systems. This includes operating systems, virtualization, storage systems, distributed systems, mobile and embedded systems, cloud and data center systems, edge computing, data/graph analytics, networking, security and privacy, dependability, debugging, and manageability, as well as new systems contributions influenced by other fields such as hardware architecture, programming languages, machine learning and AI, databases, verification, social organization, and cryptocurrency. The workshop favors works with an experimental flavor such as measurement and prototyping. * Submission Guidelines Submissions should have six or fewer pages of technical content, including all text, figures, tables, appendices, etc., formatted in standard ACM two-column conference style with 10-pt font size. Bibliographic references are not included in the 6-page limit. Reviewing will be double-blind: no author or affiliation information should appear in the submission. The authors should additionally follow the best practice in order not to disclose their identities implicitly. A submission may present preliminary results, propose a new research direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative viewpoint on an important systems topic. Papers will be selected based on their likelihood of generating insightful technical discussions at the workshop and influencing future systems research. Relevant attributes include originality, technical merit, clarity, and technical relevance. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the workshop, which will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Consistent with standard scholarly practice, the authors should not have substantially similar work in review anywhere else. Submissions can be made online at the APSys 2020 submission site. https://apsys20.hotcrp.com/. * Important Dates - Submission due: June 8 (Mon), 2020, 23:59:59 EDT (Extended, Hard Deadline) - Notification to authors: July 3 (Fri), 2020 - Camera ready due: July 20 (Mon), 2020 - Poster submission due: July 10 (Fri), 2020 (Extended) - Poster notification: July 14 (Tue), 2020 - Workshop: August 24 - 25, 2020 * Organizing Committee General Chair Kenichi Kourai (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Program Chairs Patrick P. C. Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Taesoo Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology) Local Arrangement Chair Takahiro Hirofuchi (National Institute of Advanced Insdustrial Science and Technology) Treasurer Katsuya Matsubara (Future University Hakodate) Registration Chair Hiroshi Yamada (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) Publication Chair Takahiro Shinagawa (The University of Tokyo) Travel Grant Chair Tatsuhiro Chiba (IBM Research) Poster Chair Yongkun Li (University of Science and Technology of China) Publicity Chair Soramichi Akiyama (The University of Tokyo) From michael.kuhn at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue May 5 04:20:24 2020 From: michael.kuhn at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Michael Kuhn) Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 10:20:24 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [New Deadline: May 30] Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of HPC Storage Systems (CHAOSS) Message-ID: *UPDATE* Euro-Par 2020 has been converted to an all-virtual event. Our workshop will follow this format and thus take place virtually. Please note that the submission deadline has been updated accordingly. # First International Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of HPC Storage Systems (CHAOSS) The workshop is aimed at researchers, developers of scientific applications, engineers and everyone interested in the evolution of HPC storage systems. As the developments of computing power, storage and network technologies continue to diverge, the performance gap between them widens. This trend, combined with the growing data volumes, results in I/O and storage bottlenecks that become increasingly serious especially for large-scale HPC storage systems. The hierarchy of different storage technologies to ease this situation leads to a complex environment which will become even more challenging for future exascale systems. This workshop is a venue for papers exploring topics related to data organization and management along with the impacts of multi-tier memory and storage for optimizing application throughput. It will take place at the Euro-Par 2020 conference in Warsaw, Poland on either August 24 or 25, 2020. More information is available at: https://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/events/2020/chaoss ## Important Dates Paper Submission: May 30, 2020 (*UPDATED*) Notification to Authors: July 3, 2020 (*UPDATED*) Registration: July 10, 2020 Workshop Dates: August 24 or 25, 2020 Camera-Ready Deadline: September 11, 2020 ## Submission Guidelines Submissions will be submitted and managed via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2020workshop Papers should not exceed 12 pages (including title, text, figures, appendices and references). Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but will not be published in the proceedings. Papers must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS guidelines available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines . Accepted papers will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. One author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and present the paper. Due to the virtual format, presentations have to be given either via pre-recorded video or live stream. In both cases, the organizers will collect questions during the workshop and perform a live Q&A session with the presenter. ## Topics of Interest Submissions may be more hands-on than research papers and we therefore explicitly encourage submissions in the early stages of research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Kernel and user space file/storage systems - Parallel and distributed file/storage systems - Data management approaches for heterogeneous storage systems - Management of self-describing data formats - Metadata management - Approaches using query and database interfaces - Hybrid solutions using file systems and databases - Optimized indexing techniques - Data organizations to support online workflows - Domain-specific data management solutions - Related experiences from users: what worked, what didn't? ## Program Committee - Gabriel Antoniu (INRIA) - Konstantinos Chasapis (DDN) - Andreas Dilger (DDN) - Kira Duwe (UHH) - Wolfgang Frings (JSC) - Elsa Gonsiororowski (LLNL) - Anthony Kougkas (IIT) - Michael Kuhn (UHH) - Margaret Lawson (UIUC, SNL) - Jay Lofstead (SNL) - Johann Lombardi (Intel) - Jakob L?ttgau (DKRZ) - Anna Queralt (BSC) - Yue Zhu (FSU) From wuct at cs.sjtu.edu.cn Wed May 6 21:31:47 2020 From: wuct at cs.sjtu.edu.cn (Chentao Wu) Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 09:31:47 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] NAS 2020 Call for Papers Message-ID: <4b7091476781e31f9faf9f6e102f2dee@cs.sjtu.edu.cn> NAS 2020 Call for Papers The 15th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS 2020, sponsored by the IEEE) 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 2020 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas. Each submission can have up to 8 pages, including all text, figures, tables, footnotes, appendices, references, etc. 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. Selected and extended papers will be recommended for journal publications. Topics: ? 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 Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 Author Notification: August 15, 2020 Camera-ready Paper: September 15, 2020 Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nas20 General Chair: Laxmi N. Bhuyan, University of California, Riverside Program Co-Chairs: Chita Das, Penn State University Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island Dipak Ghosal: University of California, Davis Hong Jiang, University of Texas, Arlington Vice Program Chairs: Networking: Yan Luo, UMass Lowell Architecture: E.J. Kim, Texas A&M Storage: Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine Industry panel/track chair: Asit Mishra, NVIDIA Local Arrangement Chair: John Dung Vu, California State University, San Bernardino Finance Chair John Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University Registration Co-Chairs: Yun Tian: California State University, Fullerton Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University Industry Sponsorship co-chairs: Ravi Iyer, Intel Changsheng Xie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Sibabrata Ray, Google Publication Co-Chairs: Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University Jun Wang, University of Central Florida Publicity Co-Chairs: Adwait Jog, William & Mary Chentao Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ashutosh Pattnaik, ARM Web Chair: Jianhui Yue, Michigan Tech University Steering Committee: Xubin He, Chair, Temple University Laxmi N Bhuyan, UCR Chita Das, Penn State Hong Jiang, UT Arlington Changsheng Xie, HUST, China Qing Yang, U of Rhode Island From ludovico.montalcini at gmail.com Thu May 7 06:46:09 2020 From: ludovico.montalcini at gmail.com (Ludovico Montalcini) Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 12:46:09 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation, ACDL2020, 3rd Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning, July 13-17, Certosa di Pontignano (Siena) Tuscany - Italy, Early Registration: May 18 Message-ID: ACDL 2020, 3rd Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning An Interdisciplinary Course: Big Data, Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence without Borders ACDL 2020 ? A Unique Experience: Data Science, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence with the World?s Leaders in the fascinating atmosphere of the ancient Certosa di Pontignano Certosa di Pontignano, Siena - Tuscany, Italy July 13-17, 2020 W: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz E: acdl at icas.xyz FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/204310640474650/ T: https://twitter.com/TaoSciences The past 2 editions have attracted more than 150 students per year and world-renowned experts in ML, AI, DP and DS including Yoshua Bengio, Leslie Kaelbling, Peter Norvig, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Josh Tenenbaum, Naftali Tishby and Oriol Vinyals. More info about our current and past editions can be found here: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/past-editions/ Early registration deadline: Monday May 18 https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/registration/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, POSTER & ORAL PRESENTATIONS: During the Registration Process we accept abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/registration/ Early registration deadline: Monday May 18 DEADLINES: Early Registration Deadline: Monday May 18. Oral/Poster Presentation Submission Deadline: Monday May 18. Late Registration: from May 19 to June 15 (last date for registration). Accommodation Reservation at the Certosa di Pontignano: May 31. Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: June 30. LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold three/four lessons on a specific topic. * Igor Babuschkin, DeepMind - Google, London, UK * Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA * Michael Bronstein, Twitter & Imperial College London, UK * Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA * Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy * Diederik P. Kingma, Google Brain, San Francisco, CA, USA * Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin, USA * Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA * Jos? C. Principe, University of Florida, USA * Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Cambridge, UK TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: * Chip Huyen, Stanford University, USA 4-hour tutorial on "TensorFlow 2.0 for Deep Learning Research" * Adam Paszke, University of Warsaw, Poland 4-hour tutorial on "PyTorch: A Modern Library for Machine Learning" SCOPE: The Advanced Course is not a summer school suited only for younger scholars. Rather, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic. Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless. The Certosa di Pontignano provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan landscapes. World-class wines and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning the experience of a lifetime. 8 ECTS POINTS: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures (36-40 hours of lectures). In according to the academic system all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. A formal certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: The venue of ACDL 2020 will be The Certosa di Pontignano ? Siena Dr. Lorenzo Pasquinuzzi The Certosa di Pontignano Localit? Pontignano, 5 ? 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) ? Tuscany ? Italy phone: +39-0577-1521104 fax: +39-0577-1521098 info at lacertosadipontignano.com https://www.lacertosadipontignano.com/en/index.php A few Kilometres from Siena, on a hill dominating the town stands the ancient Certosa di Pontignano, a unique place where nature, history and hospitality blend together in memorable harmony. Built in the 1300, its medieval structure remains intact with additions of the following centuries. The Certosa is centred on its historic cloisters and gardens. https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/venue/ ACCOMMODATION: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/accommodation/ REGISTRATION: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/registration/ Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2020 should register as soon as possible! Similarly for accommodation at the Certosa di Pontignano (the School Venue), book your full board accommodation at the Certosa as soon as possible! All course participants should/must stay at the Certosa di Pontignano. See you in Tuscany next July! ACDL 2020 Organizing Committee. 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URL: From sanmukh at hipc.org Sat May 9 13:49:24 2020 From: sanmukh at hipc.org (sanmukh at hipc.org) Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 10:49:24 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call For Workshop Proposals - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2020 Message-ID: ********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ********************************************************************* The 27th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2020) will be held in Pune, India, December 16-19, 2020. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, networking, data analytics, and their applications. Held on the first day of the conference, HiPC workshops will typically be half-day events although proposals for full-day workshops will also be considered. Workshops should have contributed papers in their program, and can have invited talks, poster sessions, and panel discussions as part of their technical program. Workshop organizers are responsible for preparing the call for papers to their workshops and also peer-review all submissions in accordance with the conference and IEEE guidelines. Papers accepted for presentation at the HiPC 2020 workshops will be included in the workshops volume of the conference proceedings with a separate ISBN (HiPCW 2020) and will be distributed online. Post-conference, papers presented at the conference and eligible for inclusion will be made available to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Deadlines and Important Dates Workshop proposal submissions: May 20, 2020 Workshop proposal notifications: May 31, 2020 Workshop Website and CFP: June 15, 2020 Workshop organizers should further note the deadlines for their workshop organization to coordinate the proceedings of the main conference: Notification of Workshop papers accepted: October 14th, 2020 Workshop Camera-ready: October 28th, 2020 Final submission of workshop program and materials and full workshop websites online: November 7, 2020 Workshop date: December 16, 2020 Workshop Themes The topics of the proposed workshop should complement those listed in the main conference call for papers. Each workshop should be centered around a coherent theme or topic related to HPC and/or scalable data science; We particularly encourage workshop themes that relate to emerging areas and/or emerging application contexts of societal value (e.g., agriculture, energy, sustainability, workforce development). Workshop proposals will need to clearly state the purpose and the applications of the techniques in the abstract. Workshop proposers will also need to clearly identify how they are going to attract papers and speakers. What/Where to Submit Potential HiPC workshop organizers should submit a workshop proposal that contains the items listed below. The proposal should also specify steps to be taken to develop a high-quality program committee and attract high-quality submissions to place the workshop(s) in a competitive international landscape. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference, i.e., December 16th. Workshops may be proposed as a half-day program, running for 3 hours in the morning or afternoon, or as a full day program. In the case of the latter, organizers should explain how they will attract sufficient participation to develop a full day program of peer-reviewed papers. Proposals to organize a workshop at HiPC 2020 should include: * Description: title; topics to be addressed; goals; relevance and significance to the main conference. * Names, affiliations and contact information for organizers. * Plans for soliciting submissions, and the process for selecting papers to be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings. * Tentative names of Keynote/ invited speakers * Tentative program outline, identifying key elements such as panels, discussion sessions, poster sessions, invited talks, etc. * Tentative list of PC members to be recruited * A detailed timeline of the peer-review process The proposal should not exceed three pages and should be submitted as a pdf file to the HiPC Workshops Chairs at workshops at hipc.org. For additional information about organizing an HiPC workshop, see the FAQs sheet on the website. Workshop Co-Chairs Josephine Namayanja, University of Massachusetts, Boston Antonino Tumeo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Thu May 14 23:23:14 2020 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 03:23:14 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] GrAPL 2020 - Virtual Event - Call for Participation Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies for multiple postings.] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******************************************************************************* GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ May 18, 2020 8AM ? 10AM PDT IMPORTANT: This year, GrAPL will hold two LIVE 45 minute Q&A sessions with the authors of the accepted papers and invited talks according to the schedule below. Papers and static presentations for the entire conference including the GrAPL Workshop will be made available to all conference registrants by Friday May 15th. Register for free at the IPDPS website (http://www.ipdps.org) to get instructions on how to access to this content. In addition, links to 3-5 minute lightning talks by the workshop speakers will be found at the GrAPL website (https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/) by May 15th. To attend the Zoom Sessions, we ask participants to register in advance at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/grapl2020 The organizing committee will then provide the link to the session. ****************************************************************************** Program for May 18th: 0800 ? 0845 (PDT): Session 1 Welcome message. Algorithms and Applications Kronecker Graph Generation with Ground Truth for 4-Cycles and Dense Structure in Bipartite Graphs Trevor Steil (University of Minnesota), Scott McMillan (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University), Geoffrey Sanders (LLNL), Roger Pearce (LLNL), Benjamin Priest (LLNL) A scalable graph generation algorithm to sample over a given shell distribution M. Yusuf ?zkaya (Georgia Institute of Technology), Muhammed Fatih Balin (Georgia Institute of Technology), Ali Pinar (SNL), ?mit V. ?ataly?rek (Georgia Institute of Technology) An incremental GraphBLAS solution for the 2018 TTC Social Media case study M?rton Elekes (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), G?bor Sz?rnyas (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Linear Algebraic Louvain Method in Python Tze Meng Low (Carnegie Mellon University), Daniele Spampinato (Carnegie Mellon University), Scott McMillan (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University), Michel Pelletier (FPX, LLC) 0900 ? 0945 (PDT): Session 2 Keynote - The GraphIt Universal Graph Framework: Achieving High-Performance across Algorithms, Graph Types and Architectures Saman Amarasinghe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) API's and Implementations Parallelizing Maximal Clique Enumeration on Modern Manycore Processors Jovan Blanu?a (IBM Research - Z?rich, EPFL), Radu Stoica (IBM Research - Z?rich), Paolo Ienne (EPFL), Kubilay Atasu (IBM Research - Z?rich) A Roadmap for the GraphBLAS C++ API Benjamin A. Brock (UC Berkeley), Ayd?n Bulu? (LBNL), Timothy G. Mattson (Intel), Scott McMillan (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University), Jos? E. Moreira (IBM) Considerations for a Distributed GraphBLAS API Benjamin A. Brock (UC Berkeley), Ayd?n Bulu? (LBNL), Timothy G. Mattson (Intel), Scott McMillan (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University), Jos? E. Moreira (IBM), Roger Pearce (LLNL), Oguz Selvitopi (LBNL), Trevor Steil (University of Minnesota) 75,000,000,000 Streaming Inserts/Second Using Hierarchical Hypersparse GraphBLAS Matrices Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) ****************************************************************************** GrAPL is the result of the combination of two IPDPS workshops: GABB: Graph Algorithms Building Blocks GraML: Workshop on The Intersection of Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning SUMMARY ------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Many real-world analytic workloads are a mix of graph and machine learning methods. Graphs play an important role in the synthesis and analysis of relationships and organizational structures, furthering the ability of machine-learning methods to identify signature features. Given the difference in the parallel execution models of graph algorithms and machine learning methods, current tools, runtime systems, and architectures do not deliver consistently good performance across data analysis workflows. In this workshop we are interested in graphs, how their synthesis (representation) and analysis is supported in hardware and software, and the ways graph algorithms interact with machine learning. The workshop?s scope is broad and encompasses the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. In particular, we are interested, but not limited to the following topics: ? Provide tractability and performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows; ? Discuss the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; ? Discuss programming models and associated frameworks such as Pregel, Galois, Boost, GraphBLAS, GraphChi, etc., for building large multi-attributed graphs; ? Discuss how frameworks for building graph algorithms interact with those for building machine learning algorithms; ? Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; Besides regular papers, short papers (up to four pages) describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. ORGANIZATION ------------ General co-Chairs: Scott McMillan (CMU SEI), smcmillan at sei.cmu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1 at us.ibm.com Program Chairs: Danai Koutra (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), dkoutra at umich.edu Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), hala at pnnl.gov GrAPL's Little Helpers: Tim Mattson (Intel) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) Program Committee: Nesreen K Ahmed, Intel Research and Intel AI, USA Sasikanth Avancha, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Lab, India Aydin Bulu?, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, USA Jana Doppa, Washington State University, USA John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Sergio G?mez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Will Hamilton, McGill University, Mila, Canada Stratis Ioannidis, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Bharat Kaul, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Labs, India Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Henning Meyerhenke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Indranil Roy, Natural Intelligence, USA Robert Rallo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA P. Sadayappan, University of Utah, USA Yizhou Sun, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, Italy Steering Committee: David A. Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Ayd?n Bulu? (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Tim Mattson (Intel) Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) From boukhobza at univ-brest.fr Mon May 25 10:18:15 2020 From: boukhobza at univ-brest.fr (Jalil Boukhobza) Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 16:18:15 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IEEE MASCOTS2020 - Deadline approaching Message-ID: <01a001d6329f$5901d710$0b058530$@univ-brest.fr> --------------------------- MASCOTS2020: IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems Nice, France, November 17-19, 2020 Conference website: http://mascots.iitis.pl Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mascots2020 Deadline: June 1, 2020 The MASCOTS 2020 conference encourages original submissions describing state-of-the-art research in the areas of the performance evaluation of computer systems and networks as well as in related areas. Papers describing results of theoretical and/or practical significance are solicited. Experimental, modelling and simulation studies are all in the scope of the conference. Work focusing on novel performance evaluation methods or providing insights on design and runtime management tradeoffs are particularly encouraged. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Big data and advanced machine learning techniques for system optimisation and design Cloud/edge/fog technologies Computer architectures, multi-core processors and memory systems Computer networks, protocols and algorithms Databases and big data systems and technologies Energy efficient computer systems Internet of Things Mobile systems Multimedia systems Operating systems and virtualization technologies Security in computer and communication systems Smart grids and cyber-physical systems Social networks Storage and file systems Web systems, enterprise applications and web services Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks Submissions must be formatted using two-columns and may be up to 8 pages in length, including all tables, figures, appendices, and references. We also welcome 4 page short paper submissions. Proceedings will be published by IEEE. Program Committee Jussara Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Jonatha Anselmi, INRIA, France Louiza Bouallouche-Medjkourne, University of Bejaia, Algeria Gilles Bernot, Universite' Cote d'Azur, France Andre-Luc Beylot, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France Huibo Bi, Beijing University of Technology, China Jalil Boukhobza, IRT, Lab-STICC, Univ. Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France Ivona Brandic, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Valeria Cardellini, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Emiliano Casalicchio, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy Suryadip Chakraborty, University of Cincinnati, USA Claudio Cicconetti, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy Tadeusz Czachorski, IITIS, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Sofiene Djahel, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Joanna Domanska, IITIS, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bologna, Italy Josu Doncel, University of the Basque Country, Spain Jean-Michel Fourneau, University of Versailles, France Anshul Gandhi, Stony Brook University, USA Erol Gelenbe, IITIS, Polish Academy of Sciences and Univ. Cote d'Azur, France Krzysztof Grochla, IITIS, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, IRISA, France Adelkrim Haqiq, University of Hassan I, Morocco Khaled Hussain, Assiut University, Egypt Alexandru Iosup, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Alain Jean-Marie, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Ricardo Lent, University of Houston, USA Aniket Mahanti, University of Auckland, New Zealand Raymond Marie, University of Rennes, France Luisa Massari, University of Pavia, Italy Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA Jehan-Francois Paris, University of Houston, USA Nihal Pekergin, University of Paris-Est-Creteil, France Riccardo Pinciroli, College of William and Mary, USA Paolo Romano, Lisbon University, Portugal Dan Rubenstein, Columbia University, USA Gerardo Rubino, INRIA, France Daniele Tessera, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Italy Benny van Houdt, University of Antwerp, Belgium Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Umberto Villano, University of Sannio, Italy Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada Organizing committee General Chair: Erol Gelenbe, IITIS, Polish Academy of Sciences and Univ. Cote d'Azur, France Program Chair: Maria Carla Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Finance Chair: Tadeusz Czachorski, IITIS, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Publication Chair: Ricardo Lent, University of Houston, USA Publicity Chairs: Krzysztof Grochla and Konrad Polys, IITIS, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to mcc [AT] unipv [DOT] it. On behalf of the Organizing Committee I'm honoured to invite you to submitt papers or short papers to the MASCOTS 2020 Conference! -- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier ?lectronique a ?t? v?rifi?e par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From ludovico.montalcini at gmail.com Mon May 25 09:24:46 2020 From: ludovico.montalcini at gmail.com (Ludovico Montalcini) Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 15:24:46 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation, ACDL2020, 3rd Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning, July 13-17, Certosa di Pontignano (Siena) Tuscany - Italy, Early Registration: June 8 Message-ID: ACDL 2020, 3rd Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning An multidisciplinary Course: Big Data, Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence without Borders ACDL 2020 ? A Unique Experience: Data Science, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence with the World?s Leaders in the fascinating atmosphere of the ancient Certosa di Pontignano Certosa di Pontignano, Siena - Tuscany, Italy July 13-17, 2020 W: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz E: acdl at icas.cc FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/204310640474650/ T: https://twitter.com/TaoSciences News: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/category/news/ The past 2 editions have attracted more than 150 students per year and world-renowned experts in ML, AI, DP and DS including Yoshua Bengio, Leslie Kaelbling, Peter Norvig, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Josh Tenenbaum, Naftali Tishby and Oriol Vinyals. More info about our current and past editions can be found here: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/past-editions/ Early registration deadline: Monday June 8 https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/registration/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, POSTER & ORAL PRESENTATIONS: During the Registration Process we accept abstract submissions for posters and oral presentations to be presented during the poster sessions and the talk sessions. https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/registration/ Early registration deadline: June 8 DEADLINES: Early Registration Deadline: Monday June 8. Oral/Poster Presentation Submission Deadline: June 8. Late Registration: from June 9 to July 10 (last date for registration). Accommodation Reservation at the Certosa di Pontignano: July 10. Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation: June 30. LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold three/four lessons on a specific topic. * Igor Babuschkin, DeepMind - Google, London, UK * Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA * Michael Bronstein, Twitter & Imperial College London, UK * Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA * Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy * Diederik P. Kingma, Google Brain, San Francisco, CA, USA * Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin, USA * Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA * Jos? C. Principe, University of Florida, USA * Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Cambridge, UK TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: * Chip Huyen, Stanford University, USA 4-hour tutorial on "TensorFlow 2.0 for Deep Learning Research" * Adam Paszke, University of Warsaw, Poland 4-hour tutorial on "PyTorch: A Modern Library for Machine Learning" SCOPE: The Advanced Course is not a summer school suited only for younger scholars. Rather, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic. Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless. The Certosa di Pontignano provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan landscapes. World-class wines and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning the experience of a lifetime. 8 ECTS POINTS: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures (36-40 hours of lectures). In according to the academic system all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. A formal certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: The venue of ACDL 2020 will be The Certosa di Pontignano ? Siena Dr. Lorenzo Pasquinuzzi The Certosa di Pontignano Localit? Pontignano, 5 ? 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) ? Tuscany ? Italy phone: +39-0577-1521104 fax: +39-0577-1521098 info at lacertosadipontignano.com https://www.lacertosadipontignano.com/en/index.php A few Kilometres from Siena, on a hill dominating the town stands the ancient Certosa di Pontignano, a unique place where nature, history and hospitality blend together in memorable harmony. Built in the 1300, its medieval structure remains intact with additions of the following centuries. The Certosa is centred on its historic cloisters and gardens. https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/venue/ ACCOMMODATION: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/accommodation/ REGISTRATION: https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/registration/ Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2020 should register as soon as possible! Similarly for accommodation at the Certosa di Pontignano (the School Venue), book your full board accommodation at the Certosa as soon as possible! All course participants should/must stay at the Certosa di Pontignano. See you in Tuscany next July! ACDL 2020 Organizing Committee. 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W: https://acain2020.artificial-intelligence-sas.org E: acain at artificial-intelligence-sas.org EC: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acain2020 FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/669587717185083/ EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 31 May https://acain2020.artificial-intelligence-sas.org/registration/ PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 May 2020 https://acain2020.artificial-intelligence-sas.org/the-symposium/ SCOPE & MOTIVATION: The ACAIN 2020 is aimed at AI experts, neuroscientists and both at AI experts with interests in Neuroscience and at neuroscientists with an interest in AI. ACAIN 2020 will be a special opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research by leading scientists in #AI and #Neuroscience. The two days of keynote talks and oral presentations (the ACAIN Symposium, 1-2 October,2020) will be preceded by lectures of leading scientists (the ACAIN Course, 28-30 September,2020) for students and newcomers to this interdisciplinary field. Bringing together AI and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields. The future impact and progress in both AI and Neuroscience will strongly depend on a more efficient synergy and cooperation between the two research communities. These are the goals of the International Course and Symposium ? ACAIN 2020, which is aimed both at AI experts with interests in Neuroscience and at neuroscientists with an interest in AI. ACAIN 2020 will be a special opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research by leading scientists in both fields. The two days of keynote talks and oral presentations (the Symposium) will be preceded by two days of lectures (the Course) for students and newcomers to this interdisciplinary field. Moreover, ICAN 2020 accepts rigorous research that promotes and fosters multidisciplinary interactions between artificial intelligence and neuroscience. The International Symposium Proceedings will be published by Springer. Papers will appear in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Topics of Interest include, bu are not limited to: Artificial Intelligence Asilomar AI Principles Neuroscience Brain-Behavior Interactions Cognition & Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Computing Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive Robotics Cognitive Science Computational Cognitive Science Computational Modeling of the Nervous System Computational Neuroscience Creativity & Artificial Intelligence Deep Learning Epistemic Planning Ethics for Autonomous Systems Explainable Artificial Intelligence General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Generative Adversarial Networks Human-Level Artificial Intelligence Human-Robot Interaction Machine Learning Neural data Analysis Methods Neuroinformatics Neurotechnology Probabilistic Generative Models Probabilistic Programming Reinforcement Learning Robotics Symbolic AI & Deep Learning Systems Neuroscience Theory of Deep Learning COURSE DESCRIPTION: https://acain2020.artificial-intelligence-sas.org/course-description/ LECTURERS (TBA): Each Lecturer will hold three/four lessons on a specific topic. SYMPOSIUM CALL FOR PAPER: https://acain2020.artificial-intelligence-sas.org/the-symposium/ SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM COMMITTEE (partial list, 50+ confirmed members): https://acain2020.artificial-intelligence-sas.org/program-committee/ SPECIAL SESSION: https://acain2020.artificial-intelligence-sas.org/special-sessions/ "Free Will in Artificial Intelligence: What volition neuroscience says about free behaviour and implications for the design of autonomous artificial intelligence agents" Organizer and Chair: Catalin Mitelut, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, USA cm3746 at columbia.edu The human capacity for free will or volitional (i.e. voluntary) behaviour has intrigued scientists and philosophers for thousands of years. Over the last few decades, neuroscientists have uncovered many neural correlates of voluntary behaviours and identified several decision stages involving specific neuroanatomy and dynamics (Haggard 2008). While a reward-optimized decision framework lies at the core of most fast decisions it is supported by slower time-course motivational systems that identify long-term needs (e.g. feeding, offspring care; Maslow 1943, Kenrick 2010). In the absence of naturally evolved motivational drives, autonomous general artificial agents will require the design of motivational systems that will pose unique challenges to our understanding of free will while offering creative opportunities. This symposium seeks submissions focusing on extending evolutionary biology and the neuroscience of volition towards the design of internally motivated, freely behaving autonomous artificial agents. Paper & Abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth) Paper notification: July 15, 2020 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acain2020 DEADLINES: Course Deadlines: Registration Deadline (Course) May 31, 2020 Oral/Poster Presentation Submission (Course): May 31, 2020. Notification of Decision for Oral/Poster Presentation (Course): by June 10, 2020. Symposium Deadlines: Paper Submission (Symposium): May 31, 2020. Notification of Decision for Papers (Symposium): July 15, 2020 Early Registration (Symposium): Until July 15, 2020. Late Registration (Symposium): After July 15, 2020 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: https://acain2020.artificial-intelligence-sas.org/organization/ VENUE & ACCOMMODATION: The Wordsworth Hotel & Spa (****) Address: Grasmere, Ambleside, Lake District, Cumbria, LA22 9SW, England, UK P: +44-1539-435592 E: enquiry at thewordsworthhotel.co.uk W: www.thewordsworthhotel.co.uk Please contact Ionela Oanea: Ionela.oanea at thewordsworthhotel.co.uk or Rachael Tigwell: rachael.tigwell at thewordsworthhotel.co.uk You need to book your accommodation at the venue and pay the amount for accommodation, meals directly to the Wordsworth Hotel & SPA. 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URL: From juliankunkel at googlemail.com Tue May 26 11:33:24 2020 From: juliankunkel at googlemail.com (Julian Kunkel) Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 16:33:24 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] HPC IODC Virtual Workshop on June 25th, Agenda is online Message-ID: The HPC IODC workshop takes place virtually on Thursday, June 25th, 2020. Attendance is free of charge but attendees need to register on the webpage [1] The agenda is now published. The workshop brings together I/O experts from data centres 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. We seek to ensure that a systems-level perspective is included in these discussions. [1] https://hps.vi4io.org/events/2020/iodc We are looking forward to meeting you at the workshop. Best, Julian Kunkel, Jaf Lofstead, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva -- Dr. Julian Kunkel Lecturer, Department of Computer Science +44 (0) 118 378 8218 http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/ https://hps.vi4io.org/ PGP Fingerprint: 1468 1A86 A908 D77E B40F 45D6 2B15 73A5 9D39 A28E From sanmukh at hipc.org Sat May 30 14:39:56 2020 From: sanmukh at hipc.org (sanmukh at hipc.org) Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 14:39:56 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Updates : HiPC 2020 going virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic - Revised Timeline Message-ID: ********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - REVISED TIMELINE ********************************************************************* IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 27th edition of HiPC - HiPC 2020 will be held VIRTUALLY this year. The registration fees for authors will be reduced and details regarding the same will be communicated later. We are also working with the sponsors to offer complimentary access to the online publications as well as the virtual meeting. The updated timeline for HiPC 2020 is as follows: Abstract Registration: July 1, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: July 8, 2020 Rebuttal Period: August 31 - September 2, 2020 Decisions Communicated: September 15, 2020 Deadline for Revised Papers: October 10, 2020 Final Notifications: October 25, 2020 Camera Ready Due: November 10, 2020 For more details, please visit: https://hipc.org/ Call for Papers can be found at https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ From committee at io500.org Tue Jun 9 10:23:49 2020 From: committee at io500.org (committee at io500.org) Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 08:23:49 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IO500 Revised Call For Submissions Mid-2020 List Message-ID: <6612c7e64dbf63deaeaeca31911ca2e0@io500.org> New Deadline: 13 July 2020 AoE NOTE: Given the short timeframe from the original announcement and complexities with some of the changes for this list, the deadline has been pushed out to give the community more time to participate. The BoF announcing the winners will be online 23 July 2020. Announcement: The IO500 [1] is now accepting and encouraging submissions for the upcoming 6th IO500 list. Once again, we are also accepting submissions to the 10 Node Challenge to encourage the submission of small scale results. The new ranked lists will be announced via live-stream at a virtual session. We hope to see many new results. The benchmark suite is designed to be easy to run and the community has multiple active support channels to help with any questions. Please note that submissions of all sizes 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 [1] was created in 2017, published its first list at SC17, and has grown exponentially since then. 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: * Maximizing simplicity in running the benchmark suite * Encouraging optimization and documentation of tuning parameters for performance * Allowing submitters to highlight their "hero run" performance numbers * 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 constrained parameters forcing a difficult usage pattern 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: * Gather historical data for the sake of analysis and to aid predictions of storage futures * Collect tuning data to share valuable performance optimizations across the community * Encourage vendors and designers to optimize for workloads beyond "hero runs" * Establish bounded expectations for users, procurers, and administrators 10 NODE I/O CHALLENGE The 10 Node Challenge is conducted using the regular IO500 benchmark, however, with the rule that exactly 10 client nodes must be used to run the benchmark. You may use any shared storage with, e.g., any number of servers. When submitting for the IO500 list, you can opt-in for "Participate in the 10 compute node challenge only", then we will not include the results into the ranked list. Other 10-node node submissions 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 IO500 list at https://io500.org/. This information and rules for ISC20 submissions are available here: https://www.vi4io.org/io500/rules/submission Thanks, The IO500 Committee Links: ------ [1] http://io500.org/ From thomas.lambert at inria.fr Wed Jun 10 10:54:59 2020 From: thomas.lambert at inria.fr (Thomas Lambert) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:54:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] (CALL FOR PAPERS) PDSW@SC20 - Papers due August 30, 2020 Message-ID: <1146015026.4274377.1591800899747.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> Call for papers: PDSW?20 Deadline for papers: Aug. [ callto:30, 2020, 11 | 30, 2020, 11 ] :59 PM AoE Deadline for work in progress (WIP): Nov. 1, 2020, 11:59 PM AoE =============================================================== The 5th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop [ http://www.pdsw.org/ | http://www.pdsw.org/ ] Monday, November 16, 2020 9:00am - 5:30pm Held in conjunction with SC20: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, In cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. =============================================================== We are pleased to announce the 5th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW?20). PDSW'20 will be hosted in conjunction with SC20: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Efficient data storage and data management are crucial to scientific productivity in both traditional simulationoriented HPC environments and Big Data analysis environments. This issue is further exacerbated by the growing volume of experimental and observational data, the widening gap between the performance of computational hardware and storage hardware, and the emergence of new data-driven algorithms in machine learning. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate research that addresses the most critical challenges in scientific data storage and data processing. We therefore encourage the community to submit original manuscripts that: - introduce and evaluate novel algorithms or architectures, - inform the community of important scientific case studies or workloads, or - validate the reproducibility of previously published work Special attention will be given to issues in which community collaboration is crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standardization, and shared tools. We also strongly encourage papers to share complete experimental environment information (software version numbers, benchmark configurations, etc.) to facilitate collaboration. Topics of interest include the following: - Scalable architectures for data storage, archival, and virtualization - Performance benchmarking, resource management, and workload studies - Programmability of storage systems - Parallel file systems, metadata management, and complex data management - Alternative data storage models, including object stores and key-value stores - Programming models and frameworks for data intensive computing - Techniques for data integrity, availability, reliability, and fault tolerance - Productivity tools for data intensive computing, data mining, and knowledge discovery - Application of emerging big data frameworks towards scientific computing and analysis - Enabling cloud and container-based models for scientific data analysis - Data filtering/compressing/reduction techniques - Tools and techniques for managing data movement among compute and data intensive components - Integrating computation into the memory and storage hierarchy to facilitate in-situ and in-transit data processing Regular Paper Submissions -------------------------------------- All papers 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 by the IEEE TCHPC. Authors of regular papers are strongly encouraged to submit Artifact Description (AD) Appendices that can help to reproduce and validate their experimental results. While the inclusion of the AD Appendices is optional for PDSW?20, submissions that are accompanied by AD Appendices will be given favorable consideration for the PDSW Best Paper award. PDSW?20 follows the SC20 reproducibility and transparency initiative. Detailed information on how to generate the AD Appendices will be available on the workshop website on July 1, 2020. Submit a not previously published paper as a PDF file, indicate authors and affiliations. Papers must be up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font and not including references and optional reproducibility appendices. Papers must use the IEEE conference paper template available at: [ https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html | https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ] . 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 and will not be included in the proceedings. A one-page abstract is required. Important Dates ---------------------- Regular Papers and Reproducibility Study Papers: - Submissions due: Aug. [ callto:30, 2020, 11 | 30, 2020, 11 ] :59 PM AoE - Paper Notification: Sep. 28, 2020 - Camera ready due: Oct. 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URL: From bhatele at cs.umd.edu Thu Jun 18 01:02:43 2020 From: bhatele at cs.umd.edu (Abhinav Bhatele) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 01:02:43 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: ProTools 2020 @ SC20 (Deadline: August 24, 2020) Message-ID: ============================================================ Call for Papers Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools (ProTools 20) Held in conjunction with SC20, in cooperation with TCHPC. Atlanta, GA, USA November 16, 2020 https://protools20.github.io Submission Deadline: August 24, 2020 ============================================================ Understanding program behavior is critical to overcome the expected architectural and programming complexities, such as limited power budgets, heterogeneity, hierarchical memories, shrinking I/O bandwidths, and performance variability, that arise on modern HPC platforms. To do so, HPC software developers need intuitive support tools for debugging, performance measurement, analysis, and tuning of large-scale HPC applications. Moreover, data collected from these tools such as hardware counters, communication traces, and network traffic can be far too large and too complex to be analyzed in a straightforward manner. We need new automatic analysis and visualization approaches to help application developers intuitively understand the multiple, interdependent effects that algorithmic choices have on application correctness or performance. The ProTools workshop combines two prior SC workshops: the Workshop on Visual Performance Analytics (VPA) and the Workshop on Extreme-Scale Programming Tools (ESPT). The Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools (ProTools) intends to bring together HPC application developers, tool developers, and researchers from the visualization, performance, and program analysis fields for an exchange of new approaches to assist developers in analyzing, understanding, and optimizing programs for extreme-scale platforms. Workshop Topics: Topics include, but are not limited to: * Performance tools for scalable parallel platforms * Debugging and correctness tools for parallel programming paradigms * Scalable displays of performance data * Case studies demonstrating the use of performance visualization in practice * Program development tool chains (incl. IDEs) for parallel systems * Methodologies for performance engineering * Data models to enable scalable visualization * Graph representation of unstructured performance data * Tool technologies for extreme-scale challenges (e.g., scalability, resilience, power) * Tool support for accelerated architectures and large-scale multi-cores * Presentation of high-dimensional data * Visual correlations between multiple data source * Measurement and optimization tools for networks and I/O * Tool infrastructures and environments * Human-Computer Interfaces for exploring performance data * Multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration * Application developer experiences with programming and performance tools Paper Submission: We solicit papers that focus on performance, debugging, and correctness tools for parallel programming paradigms as well as techniques and case studies at the intersection of performance analysis and visualization. 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 should be a minimum of 6 pages and a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE Conference format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html). The 10-page limit includes figures, and tables, and references. All papers must be submitted through the Supercomputing 2020 Linklings site: http://submissions.supercomputing.org Important Dates: * Submission deadline: August 24, 2020 (AoE) * Notification of acceptance: September 28, 2020 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: October 7, 2020 (AoE) * Workshop: November 16, 2020 (2:00-5:30 pm) Workshop Chairs: Abhinav Bhatele, University of Maryland, College Park, USA David Boehme, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Markus Geimer, J?lich Supercomputing Centre, Germany Andreas Kn?pfer, ZIH, Technical University Dresden, Germany -- Abhinav Bhatele, cs.umd.edu/~bhatele Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Fri Jun 26 20:29:52 2020 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:29:52 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] IA^3 2020 - 10th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms Message-ID: <3CB3BBF4-7E77-4966-BF7B-C6DB244C7B70@pnnl.gov> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] IA^3 2020 10th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 15, 2020 Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA In conjunction with SC20 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. Emerging supercomputing applications are moving towards a convergence of scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning algorithms, mixed in various ways. 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 and solutions that combine graph algorithms with machine learning) - Applications that integrate scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning, and require efficient execution of irregular workloads 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 28, 2020 (AoE) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2020 (AoE) Notification: September 28, 2020 Artifact Evaluation: September 28, 2020 - October 10, 2020 Camera-ready: October 10, 2020 Workshop: November 15, 2020 -------------------- 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 (excluding 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 templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- 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://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-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. Note that differently from the main conferene, this additional page is voluntary (not mandatory - i.e., if a paper has no computational results, do not attach it) for the workshop, 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. 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 publicly (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, Biagio Cosenza, at bcosenza at unisa.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), 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 -------------------- Biagio Cosenza (University of Salerno), bcosenza at unisa.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Johnathan Alsop, AMD, US Eishi Arima, University of Tokyo, JP Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Prerna Budhkar, Intel, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Anastasiia Butko, LBNL, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Lab, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University Jos? Moreira, IBM Research, US Miquel Moret?, Bar?elona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Microsoft, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US Thomas B. Rolinger, University of Maryland, US Kentaro Sano, RIKEN, JP John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Microsoft, US Tyler Sorensen, Princeton, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, IT Other members TBD From akiyama at ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Jul 6 21:13:13 2020 From: akiyama at ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Soramichi Akiyama) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 10:13:13 +0900 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [Call for Posters] 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2020) Message-ID: <20200707101313.7ead7a356aaf866486b4d074@ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Dear Members of the storage-research-list, Below please find the call for posters (deadline: July 10th) of the 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2020), August 24 - 25, 2020 (held online). We plan to have online interactive Q&A sessions for the accepted posters. Best regards, Soramichi Akiyama 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2020), August 24 - 25, 2020 * Call for Posters * APSys 2020 seeks proposals for posters describing novel work in any area of interest to a broad systems audience. The posters will be presented during an evening reception at the workshop. The poster session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with workshop attendees. We highly encourage you to submit controversial works, crazy ideas, thought-provoking and innovative perspectives in designing and implementing novel computer systems. * Important Dates * - Poster submission due: July 10 (Fri), 2020 - Poster notification: July 14 (Tue), 2020 * Poster Chair * Yongkun Li (University of Science and Technology of China) * Submission Instructions * Submissions must include an extended abstract no longer than one 8.5?11-inch page, including all figures and references, formatted in standard ACM two-column conference style with 10-pt font size. Submissions can be made online at the APSys 2020 poster submission site: https://apsys20posters.hotcrp.com/ From committee at io500.org Tue Jul 7 12:32:49 2020 From: committee at io500.org (committee at io500.org) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 10:32:49 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IO500 BoF Call for Community Presentations Message-ID: <62b08396bf7e1a088de0f80c97ce1de5@io500.org> Abstract Due: 7/9 AoE Abstract Responses: 7/13 Slides Due: 7/20 BoF: 7/23 Once again the IO500 committee is seeking community participation in the Birds of a Feather meeting for others to share their experiences broadly around IO500 efforts. Talks about scaling discoveries, overcoming challenges with the benchmarks, lessons learned, and other related topics are all welcome. Talks are currently targeted at 5 minutes, but since we are not on the ISC conference schedule, we may expand both the number and length of talks. Please send submissions and questions to committee at io500.org in any reasonable format (e.g., text, PDF, docx). The IO500 Committee From gaowanling at ict.ac.cn Mon Jul 13 09:36:54 2020 From: gaowanling at ict.ac.cn (=?utf-8?B?Z2Fvd2FubGluZw==?=) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:36:54 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP Deadline Extended - 2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'20) Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS New Deadlines Registration of abstract (non-mandatory): July 15, 2020 Paper Submission: August 15, 2020 Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2020 ========================================================== 2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'20) http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench20/index.html Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental human activities. The organizing committee is pleased to invite you to take part in Bench'20 to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This symposium (Bench'20) is organized by the International Open Benchmarking Council (BenchCouncil). Bench'20 overlaps with SC 20 (same place and same time), but it is NOT affiliated with the SC conference. The main themes of Bench'20 are benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing systems and applications in the areas of big data, AI, block chain, HPC, datacenters, IoT, and edge computing. The Bench conference has three defining characteristics. First, it provides a highquality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. Second, it is a multi-disciplinary conference. The past conferences attracted the researchers and practitioners from the architecture, systems, algorithms, and applications communities. Third, it includes both invited sessions and contributed sessions. Regularly, Bench'20 will present the BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3000), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1000), and the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1000). As its duty, BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Each winning paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral. Call for papers ------------------------ Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. **Synthetics or real-world data sets of: **Benchmark, measurement, and optimization of: **Benchmark specifications and open-source implementation reports of: ** Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms, and tools in benchmarking, measurement, and optimization for: ** Benchmark-driven domain-specific co-design of: ** Test methodologies and systems of: ** Workload characterization of: -Big data -AI -HPC -Machine learning -Big scientific data -Datacenters -Cloud -Warehouse-scale computing -Mobile robotics -Edge and fog computing -IoT -Block chain -Data management and storage -Medicine, finance and education Paper Submission ------------------------ Papers must be submitted in PDF. For a full paper, the page limit is 15 pages in the LNCS format, not including references. For a short paper, the page limit is 8 pages in LNCS format, not including references. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. After the conference, the proceeding will be published by Springer LNCS (Indexed by EI). Please note that the LNCS format is the final one for publishing. After the acceptance decisions are made, the presentation mode of each paper is determined based on the recommendations as poster, spotlight, or oral. All accepted papers, regardless of presentation mode, appear in the proceedings as full-length papers. At least one author must pre-register for the symposium, and at least one author must attend the symposium to present the paper. Papers for which no author is preregistered will be removed from the proceedings. Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bench20# Improtant Dates --------------------- Registration of abstract (non-mandatory) July 15, 2020 Paper Submission August 15, 2020 Acceptance Notification September 15, 2020 Awards ---------- At Bench'20, several important awards will be given, which include: * BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3,000) - This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is eligible for the status of a BenchCouncil Fellow. * BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a junior member who demonstrates outstanding potential for research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences, which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproduceable Research (Each winning paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral) - BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Organization ----------------- General Chairs Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences) TPC Chairs Felix Wolf (Technical University of Darmstadt) Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Award Committees Lizy Kurian John (The University of Texas at Austin) D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences) Submission Chair Rui Ren (Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd.) Publicity Chairs Ali Jannesari (Iowa State University) Akihiro Nomura (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Chen Zheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) Zhen Jia (Amazon) Biwei Xie (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------------- Matthew Bachstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Woongki Baek, UNIST David Bermbach, TU Berlin Arne Berre, SINTEF Ben Blamey, Uppsala University K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University Florina Ciorba, University of Basel Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Cheol-Ho Hong, Chung-Ang University Yunyou Huang, Guangxi Normal University Sascha Hunold, TU Vienna Khaled Ibrahim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Todor Ivanov, Frankfurt Big Data Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt Zhen Jia, Amazon Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Juby Jose, Intel Gwangsun Kim, POSTECH Huan Liu, Arizona State University Gang Lu, Huawei Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville Lucas Mello Schnorr, UFRGS Benson Muite, University of Tartu Bin Ren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Rui Ren, Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd. Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Shuaiwen Leon Song, The University of Sydney Salman Zubair Toor, Uppsala University Blesson Varghese, Queen's University Belfast, UK Feiyi Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines Biwei Xie, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jungang Xu, College of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Chen Zheng, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiexuan Zhou, Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We hope to welcome many participants and have lively discussions. https://www.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/apsys2020/registration.html Best regards, Soramichi Akiyama Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Thu Aug 13 21:15:30 2020 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 01:15:30 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] IA^3 2020 - 10th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms - UPDATED Message-ID: <8F6BBED8-4AE7-40E1-B0A6-2534A33CD187@pnnl.gov> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] !!!!!!!!! NEWS: WORKSHOP GOING VIRTUAL; PARCO SPECIAL ISSUE !!!!!!!! IA^3 2020 10th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 11, 2020 Virtual Workshop In conjunction with SC20 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. Emerging supercomputing applications are moving towards a convergence of scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning algorithms, mixed in various ways. 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 and solutions that combine graph algorithms with machine learning) - Applications that integrate scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning, and require efficient execution of irregular workloads 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 28, 2020 (AoE) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2020 (AoE) Notification: September 28, 2020 Artifact Evaluation: September 28, 2020 - October 10, 2020 Camera-ready: October 10, 2020 Workshop: November 11, 2020 -------------------- 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 (excluding 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 templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- 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://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-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. Note that differently from the main conferene, this additional page is voluntary (not mandatory - i.e., if a paper has no computational results, do not attach it) for the workshop, 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. 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 publicly (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, Biagio Cosenza, at bcosenza at unisa.it. -------------------- Special Issue -------------------- Authors of papers accepted to the workshop will also be invited to submit extended version of their papers to a Special Issue of the journal of Parallel Computing (ParCO) on Hardware/Software Co-design for Sparse and Irregular Applications. Submissions for the special issue with open December 1, 2020 and will close on March 1, 2021. For more information on this special issue, please visit the special issue page and/or contact the guest co-editors, Flavio Vella (flavio.vella at unibz.it) and Antonino Tumeo (antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov). https://www.journals.elsevier.com/parallel-computing/call-for-papers/hardwaresoftware-co-design-for-sparse-and-irregular-appl -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), 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 -------------------- Biagio Cosenza (University of Salerno), bcosenza at unisa.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Johnathan Alsop, AMD, US Eishi Arima, University of Tokyo, JP Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Prerna Budhkar, Intel, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Anastasiia Butko, LBNL, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Cat Graves, HPE, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Lab, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University Jos? Moreira, IBM Research, US Miquel Moret?, Bar?elona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Microsoft, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US Thomas B. Rolinger, University of Maryland, US Kentaro Sano, RIKEN, JP John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Microsoft, US Tyler Sorensen, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, IT Other members TBD From sungjin.lee at dgist.ac.kr Fri Aug 14 00:48:17 2020 From: sungjin.lee at dgist.ac.kr (Sungjin Lee) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:48:17 +0900 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IEEE NVMSA 2020 - Call for Participation Message-ID: (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation The 9th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA 2020) Sokcho, Korea, August 19-21, 2020 https://nvmsa2020.github.io/ NVMSA is a premier conference in the area of non-volatile memory systems and emerging memory technologies. It provides a fantastic opportunity for global non-volatile memory researchers from different communities to discuss and exchange knowledge, ideas and insights, and to facilitate the establishment of potential collaborations that can speed up the progress in the design and application of NVMs. Since it is an online event, the registration will be completed with full payment or without payment (free). At least one author is required to register for each accepted paper. Other participants can register for free or with voluntary payment. We hope to welcome many participants and have lively discussion. https://nvmsa2020.github.io/registration.html Preliminary Program Schedule -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * August 19 * Session 1: Solid-State Drive (13:30-14:30) NS-FTL: Alleviating the Uneven Bit-Level Wearing of NVRAM-based FTL via NAND-SPIN (Flash Translation Layer, Wear-Leveling) Wei-Chun Cheng, Shuo-Han Chen, Yuan-Hao Chang (Academia Sinica), Kuan-Hsun Chen, Jian-Jia Chen (TU Dortmund), Tseng-Yi Chen (National Central University), Ming-Chang Yang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Wei-Kuan Shih (National Tsing-Hua University) High-Performance Solid State Drive with Parallel Read Scheme Amit Berman (Samsung Electronics) Session 2: Invited Session I (15:00-16:30) Pink: High-speed In-storage Key-value Store with Bounded Tails Jinsu Im, Jinwook Bae (DGIST), Chanwoo Chung, Arvind (MIT), Sungjin Lee (DGIST) ATC 2020 AniFilter: Parallel and Failure-Atomic Cuckoo Filter for Non-Volatile Memories Hyungjun Oh, Bongki Cho, Changdae Kim, Heejin Park, and Jiwon Seo (Hanyang University) Eurosys 2020 Lock-free Concurrent Level Hashing for Persistent Memory Zhangyu Chen, Yu Hua, Bo Ding, Pengfei Zuo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) ATC 2020 * August 20 * Session 3: Emerging Technology (08:30-10:00) FairHym: Improving Inter-Process Fairness on Hybrid Memory Systems Satoshi Imamura, Eiji Yoshida (Fujitsu Laboratories) A Kernel Unfolding Approach to Trade Data Movement with Computation Power for CNN Acceleration Yueh-Han Wu, Tse-Yuan Wang (National Taiwan University), Yuan-Hao Chang (Academia Sinica), Tei-Wei Kuo (City University of Hong Kong), and Hung-Sheng Chang (Macronix) Exploring Performance Characteristics of ZNS SSDs: Observation and Implication Hojin Shin, Myounghoon Oh, Gunhee Choi, Jongmoo Choi (Dankook University) Session 4: OS and Application (10:30-12:00) Split?n Trace NVM: Leveraging Library OSes for Semantic Memory Tracing Christian Hakert, Kuan-Hsun Chen (TU Dortmund), Simon Kuenzer, Sharan Santhanam (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH), Shuo-Han Chen, Yuan-Hao Chang (Academia Sinica), Felipe Huici (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH), Jian-Jia Chen (TU Dortmund) LOCKED-Free Journaling: Improving the Coalescing Degree in EXT4 Journaling Kyoungho Koo, Yongjun Park (Hanyang University), Youjip Won (KAIST) A Lightweight Framework for Fast Image Retrieval on Large-Scale Image Datasets Renhai Chen, Wenwen Li, Guozheng Rao, Zhiyong Feng (Tianjin University) Session 5: Energy Optimization (13:30-15:00) A Zero Energy Consumption Scheme for System Suspend to Limited NVM Weilan Wang, Liang Shi (East China Normal University), Chun Jason Xue (City University of Hong Kong), Edwin Sha (East China Normal University) ScaleML: Machine Learning based Heap Memory Object Scaling Prediction Joongeon Park, Safdar Jamil, Awais Khan (Sogang University), Sangkeun Lee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Youngjae Kim (Sogang University) Energy Efficient Approximate Storing of Image Data for MTJ Based Non-volatile Memory Yoshinori Ono, Kimiyoshi Usami (Shibaura Institute of Technology) Session 6: Invited Session II (15:30-17:00) Evanesco: Architectural Support for Efficient Data Sanitization in Modern Flash-Based Storage Systems Myungsuk Kim (Seoul National University), Jisung Park (ETH Z?rich and Seoul National University), Geonhee Cho, Yoona Kim (Seoul National University), Lois Orosa, Onur Mutlu (ETH Z?rich), Jihong Kim (Seoul National University) ASPLOS 2020 Scalable Parallel Flash Firmware for Many-core Architectures Jie Zhang, Miryeong Kwon (KAIST), Michael Swift (University of Wisconsin?Madison), Myoungsoo Jung (KAIST) FAST 2020 Libnvmmio: Reconstructing Software IO Path with Failure-Atomic Memory-Mapped Interface Jungsik Choi, Jaewan Hong (Sungkyunkwan University), Youngjin Kwon (KAIST), Hwansoo Han (Sungkyunkwan University) ATC 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Intel and Fraunhofer IKS are covering the cost of the proceedings and all organisational expenses. Hence, the participation is free of charge. But you will need to register at http://edcc.dependability.org/registration.html. The EDCC technical program spans over three half days (Sept 8-10, 14h -17h45). It includes three invited talks: - Towards Universal Safety Guarantees of Decision Making in Automated Vehicles. Ignacio Alvarez. Intel Labs. - Safety of Autonomous Driving Systems. Alex Haag. AID GmbH. - Public Transport: Challenges and Opportunities for Dependability. Martin Rothfelder. Siemens AG. and twenty one technical presentations selected by the Program Committee. More information about the program could be found here: http://edcc.dependability.org/program.html Five EDCC workshops are organised on September 7: - AI4RAILS - 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for RAILwayS - DREAMS - Dynamic Risk managEment for Autonomous Systems - DSOGRI - 2nd International Workshop on Dependable SOlutions for Intelligent Electricity Distribution GRIds - SERENE - 12th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems - TAIWAN-DCC - 1st International Workshop on Technology of AI and Wireless Advanced Networking: Dependable Computing and Communication General chairs: Michael Paulitsch, Intel Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer Program Committee chair: Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Sweden Steering Committee chair: Karama Kanoun, LAAS Workshop chair: Simona Bernardi, University of Zaragoza Publicity chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Publication chair: Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa Local Organization chairs: Veronika Seifried, Fraunhofer IKS Kerstin Alexander, Intel For more information, visit: http://edcc.dependability.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From icpe.2021.rennes at gmail.com Mon Aug 17 08:49:34 2020 From: icpe.2021.rennes at gmail.com (ICPE 2021) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 08:49:34 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Contributions: ICPE 2021, 12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Contributions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICPE 2021 12th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG Rennes, France April 17-23, 2021 Web: https://icpe2021.spec.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICPEconf/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Research abstracts: Oct 9, 2020 Research papers: Oct 16, 2020 Research paper notification: Dec 10, 2020 Artifact registration: Dec 14, 2020 Artifact submission: Dec 21, 2020 Artifact notification: Feb 08, 2021 Industrial/experience abstracts: Oct 9, 2020 Industrial/experience papers: Oct 16, 2020 Industrial/experience paper notification: Dec 11, 2020 Workshop proposals submission: Oct 16, 2020 Workshop proposals notification: Oct 27, 2020 Poster/demo submission: Jan 20, 2021 Poster/demo notification: Feb 4, 2021 Tutorial proposals submission: Jan 20, 2021 Tutorial proposals notification: Feb 4, 2021 Work-in-progress papers: Jan 20, 2021 Work-in-progress paper notification: Feb 4, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. The systems of interest include any type of computing or software system, such as (but not limited to) desktop systems, cloud systems, web-based systems, embedded systems, distributed systems and cyber-physical systems. The handling of performance issues at all stages of software and system life cycles is also of interest. This year, we particularly encourage researchers to submit their work on the performance engineering of ?modern? application domains as well, such as deep learning, blockchain, microservices, Big Data, DevOps and/or Autonomous 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 testing * Software performance (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 * Performance and agile methods * Performance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) * Software and system scalability and its impact on performance Performance measurement, monitoring and analysis: * Application tracing and profiling * Workload characterization techniques * Experimental design * Tools and techniques for performance testing, measurement, profiling and tuning, * and analysis of the resulting data 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 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 another 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 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. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register at the full rate, attend the conference and present the paper. Presented papers will be published in the ICPE 2021 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 2021 Artifact Track. 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 Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India Alberto Avritzer, eSulabSolutions, USA Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany Simona Bernardi, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Andre Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, USA Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lubomir Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic Radu Calinescu, University of York, England Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Concordia University, Canada Lucy Cherkasova, ARM Research, USA Vittoria De Nitto Person?, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Antinisca Di Marco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany Nikolas Roman Herbst, University of W?rzburg, Germany Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Pooyan Jamshidi, University of South Carolina, USA Evangelia Kalyvianaki, University of Cambridge, England Samuel Kounev, University of W?rzburg, Germany Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada Philipp Leitner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada Catalina M. Llado, Universitat Illes Balears, Spain Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA Jose Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services, India Dusan Okanovic, Novatec, Germany Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada Francesco Quaglia, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Weiyi Shang, Concordia University, Canada Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services, India Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Mirco Tribastone, IMT Lucca, Italy Catia Trubiani, GSSI L'Aquila, Italy Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Alexandru Uta, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Andre van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Katinka Wolter, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada The PC committees for some tracks are not fully formed yet so the ICPE website will keep involving to reflect such info. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs * Johann Bourcier, University of Rennes 1, France * Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang, York University, Canada Research Program Chairs * Vittorio Cortellessa, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Cor-Paul Bezemer, University of Alberta, Canada Artifact Evaluation Chairs * Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Concordia University, Canada * Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Workshops Chairs * Weiyi Shang, Concordia University, Canada * Alessandro Pellegrini, Rome University, Italy Tutorials Chairs * Nikolas Herbst, University of W?rzburg, Germany * Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services, India Posters and Demos Chair * Heng Li, Ecloe Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada * Catalina Llad? Matas, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Awards Chairs * Philipp Leitner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Marios Fokaefs, Polytechnique Montr?al, Canada Publicity Chairs * Boyuan Chen, York University, Canada * Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China * Simon Eismann, University of W?rzburg, Germany * Alma Riska, NetApps, USA * Djamel Eddine Khelladi, CNRS-Univ Rennes, France Industry Track Chair * James Bucek, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA * Robert Birke, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland Finance Chair * Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes 1, France Publications Chair * Daniele Di Pompeo, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Social-Media Chair * Mathieu Acher, University of Rennes 1, France * Arnaud Blouin, INSA Rennes, France Local Arrangements Chair * Elisabeth Lebret, Inria Rennes, France * Nathalie Lacaux, Inria Rennes, France Web Chair * Antoine Cheron, Fabernovel, France * Olivier Barais, University of Rennes 1, France Student Volunteer Chair * No?l Plouzeau, University of Rennes 1, France -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Check out the content from previous SDC events. -- Arnold Arnold Jones Technical Council Managing Director Storage Networking Industry Association Phone: 407.574.7273 Mobile: 407.435.1067 arnold.jones at snia.org View this email in your browser [cidimage001.png at 01D676D4.00B58A10] Attend SDC 2020 for $95 [cidimage002.jpg at 01D676D4.00B58A10] Taking place virtually on September 22-23, 2020, SNIA's Storage Developer Conference (SDC) will bring the global storage developer community together to collaborate and network through the sharing of ideas, industry developments and best practices. Register now for $95 SDC 2020 Agenda The SDC 2020 agenda is jam-packed with informative sessions on topics including NVMe, Computational Storage, Blockchain, Persistent Memory, Storage Architecture, and much more. View the agenda here [cidimage003.png at 01D676D4.00B58A10] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Gwangju, Korea T r a c k EMBS ? deadline extension -> September 28 *------------------------------------------------* EMBEDDED SYSTEMS New Perspectives for Hardware, System Software, and Applications https://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~ccho/sac2021 Conference (main) page http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2021/ *------------------------------------------------* IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: September 15, 2020. September 28, 2020 Author notification: November 10, 2020. Camera ready paper: November 25, 2020. ________________________________________________________ High performance embedded computing has recently become more and more present in devices used in everyday life. A wide variety of applications, from consumer electronics to biomedical systems, require building up powerful yet cheap embedded devices. In this context, embedded software has turned out to be more and more complex, posing new challenging issues. The adoption of further flexible programming paradigms/architectures is becoming almost mandatory. Nonetheless, even nowadays the development of embedded systems must rely on a tight coupling of hardware and software components. Moreover, the market pressure calls for the employment of new methodologies for shortening the development time, and for driving the evolution of existing products. New efficient solutions to problems emerging in this setting can be put into action by means of a joint effort of academia and industry. Design of embedded systems must take into account a wide variety of constraints: performance, code size, power consumption, presence of real-time tasks, robustness, maintainability, security, and possibly scalability. The more convenient trade-off has to be found, often operating on a large number of different parameters. In this scenario, solutions can be proposed at different levels of abstraction, making use of an assortment of tools and methodologies: researchers and practitioners have a chance to propose new ideas and to compare experimentations. The focus of this conference track is on the application of both novel and well-known techniques to the embedded systems development. Particular attention is paid to solutions that require expertise in different fields (e.g. computer architecture, OS, compilers, security, software engineering, simulation). The track will benefit also from direct experiences in the employment of embedded devices in "unconventional" application areas, so to show up new challenges in the system design/development process. In this setting, researchers and practitioners from academia and industry will get a chance to keep in touch with problems, open issues and future directions in the field of development of dedicated applications for embedded systems. *-----------------------------------------------* Topics of Interest *-----------------------------------------------* * Embedded Systems, Cyberphysical Systems (CPS), and Internet-of-Things (IoT): 1. System-level specification, modeling, virtual prototyping and simulation 2. Embedded system synthesis and optimization 3. Many- and multi-core SoC architecture 4. HW/SW co-design, co-simulation and co-verification 5. Energy/power management design and energy harvesting * Embedded Software: 1. Kernel, middleware, and virtual machine 2. Energy-efficient embedded software 3. Real-time software and operating systems 4. Software design for multicores, GPUs, and heterogeneous embedded architectures 5. Testing, debugging, profiling and performance analysis of Embedded Systems * Memory Architecture and Near/In Memory Computing: 1. Storage system and memory architecture 2. On-chip memory architectures and management: Scratchpads, compiler, controlled memories, etc. 3. Memory and storage hierarchies with emerging memory technologies 4. Near-memory and in-memory computing 5. Memory architecture and management for emerging memory technologies * Neural Network and Deep Learning System Designs: 1. AI and machine learning for embedded systems 2. Hardware and devices for neuromorphic and neural network computing 3. Systems for neural computing (including deep neural networks) 4. Neural network acceleration co-design techniques 5. Design techniques for AI of Things *-----------------------------------------------* Important dates (PAPERS & SRC ABSTRACTS) *-----------------------------------------------* Full paper submission: September 15, 2020. September 28, 2020 Author notification: November 10, 2020. Camera ready paper: November 25, 2020. *-----------------------------------------------* Paper Submissions *-----------------------------------------------* Submission of Papers: Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format, according to the instructions contained in the main Conference web site. The review process is double blind. Please anonymize the paper submitted for review. The paper length is 8 pages, with the option to add 2 additional pages at extra charge, up to a maximum of 10 pages. Contributions must contain original unpublished work. Papers that have been concurrently submitted to other conferences or journals (double submissions) will be automatically rejected. All papers must submitted through the main conference web page. Paper Acceptance: Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending ACM SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. *-----------------------------------------------* Student Research Competition at ACM SAC *-----------------------------------------------* Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original unpublished and in-progress research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC Tracks. The Student Research Competition (SRC) program is designed to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researcher and practitioners in their areas of interest. All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts will have the opportunity to give poster presentations of their work and compete for three top winning places. The SRC committee will evaluate and select First, Second, and Third place winners. The winners will receive cash awards and SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet dinner. Authors of selected abstracts are eligible to apply to the SIGAPP Student Travel Award program for support. Submission - Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts (minimum of two pages; maximum of four pages) of their original unpublished and in-progress research work following the instructions published at SAC web-site. The submissions must address research work related to a SAC track, with emphasis on the innovation behind the research idea, including the problem being investigated, the proposed approach and research methodology, and sample preliminary results of the work. In addition, the abstract should reflect on the originality of the work, innovation of the approach, and applicability of anticipated results to real-world problems. All SRC works must be submitted through the main conference web page. Please note SRCs and regular papers must be submitted at different pages of the START web system. Submitting the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. It is recommended to refer to the official SRC Information Sheet for further details. *------------------------------------------* Track Chairs *------------------------------------------* Wei-Chung Hsu - National Taiwan University - Taiwan Jalil Boukhobza ? 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[ callto:27, 2020, 11 | 27, 2020, 11 ] :59 PM AoE Notification: On or before Oct. 1, 2020 Pre-recoded presentation due: Oct. 7, 2020, 11:59 PM AoE =============================================================== The 5th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop [ http://www.pdsw.org/ | http://www.pdsw.org/ ] Monday, November 16, 2020 9:00am - 5:30pm Held in conjunction with SC20: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, In cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. =============================================================== We are pleased to announce the 5th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW?20). PDSW'20 will be hosted in conjunction with SC20: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Efficient data storage and data management are crucial to scientific productivity in both traditional simulationoriented HPC environments and Big Data analysis environments. This issue is further exacerbated by the growing volume of experimental and observational data, the widening gap between the performance of computational hardware and storage hardware, and the emergence of new data-driven algorithms in machine learning. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate research that addresses the most critical challenges in scientific data storage and data processing. We therefore encourage the community to submit original manuscripts that: - introduce and evaluate novel algorithms or architectures, - inform the community of important scientific case studies or workloads, or - validate the reproducibility of previously published work Special attention will be given to issues in which community collaboration is crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standardization, and shared tools. We also strongly encourage papers to share complete experimental environment information (software version numbers, benchmark configurations, etc.) to facilitate collaboration. Topics of interest include the following: - Scalable architectures for data storage, archival, and virtualization - Performance benchmarking, resource management, and workload studies - Programmability of storage systems - Parallel file systems, metadata management, and complex data management - Alternative data storage models, including object stores and key-value stores - Programming models and frameworks for data intensive computing - Techniques for data integrity, availability, reliability, and fault tolerance - Productivity tools for data intensive computing, data mining, and knowledge discovery - Application of emerging big data frameworks towards scientific computing and analysis - Enabling cloud and container-based models for scientific data analysis - Data filtering/compressing/reduction techniques - Tools and techniques for managing data movement among compute and data intensive components - Integrating computation into the memory and storage hierarchy to facilitate in-situ and in-transit data processing 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 and will not be included in the proceedings. Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract or a 5-minutes pre-recorded presentation (voice over PowerPoint). Please use the IEEE conference paper template when preparing the one-page abstract. Feel free to condense the author list contents to offer more space Please email your submission as a PDF attachment of the one-page abstract OR as a link to your pre-recorded presentation to Shadi Ibrahim < [ mailto:shadi.ibrahim at inria.fr | shadi.ibrahim at inria.fr ] > and Kento Sato < [ mailto:kento.sato at riken.jp | kento.sato at riken.jp ] >. Put "PDSW 2020 WIP" as the first part of the message subject. Important Dates ---------------------- Work in Progress (WIP): - Submissions due: Sep. 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URL: From committee at io500.org Thu Oct 1 12:40:00 2020 From: committee at io500.org (committee at io500.org) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:40:00 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IO500 SC20 Call for Submission Message-ID: <4a20ed6ae985a25c69d953e1ea633d62@io500.org> CALL FOR IO500 SUBMISSION Deadline: 30 October 2020 AoE Stabilization period: 1st October -- 9th October 2020 AoE The IO500 [1] is now accepting and encouraging submissions for the upcoming 7th IO500 list, to be revealed at the IO500 Virtual BOF during SC20. Once again, we are also accepting submissions to the 10 Node I/O Challenge to encourage submission of small scale results. The new ranked lists will be announced at our Virtual SC20 BoF. We hope to see you, and your results, there. A new change for the upcoming submission procedure is the introduction of a stabilization period that aims to harden the benchmark. The final benchmark is released at the end of this period. During the stabilization we encourage the community to test the proper execution of the benchmark and provide us with feedback. We will apply bug fixes to the code base and expect that results obtained will be valid as full submission. We also continue with another list for the Student Cluster Competition, since IO500 is used during this competition. Also new this year is that we have partnered with Anthony Kougkas' team at Illinois Institute of Technology to evaluate the submission metadata describing the storage system on which the test was run to improve the quality and usefulness of the data IO500 collects. You may be contacted by one of his students to clarify one or more of the metadata items from your submission(s). We would appreciate, but do not require, your cooperation to help improve the submission metadata quality. Results from their work will be fed back to improve our submission process for future lists. The IO500 benchmark suite is designed to be easy to run, and the community has multiple active support channels to help with any questions. Please submit results from your system, and we look forward to seeing many of you at SC20! Please note that submissions of all sizes are welcome, including multiple submissions from different storage systems/tiers at a single site. The website 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 [1] was created in 2017, published its first list at SC17, and has grown continuously since then. 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: * Maximizing simplicity in running the benchmark suite * Encouraging complexity in tuning for performance * Allowing submitters to highlight their "hero run" performance numbers * 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 on the performance. Finally, it includes a namespace search, as this has been determined to be a highly sought-after feature in HPC storage systems that have historically not been well-measured. Submitters are encouraged to share their tuning insights for publication. The goals of the community are also multi-fold: * Gather historical data for the sake of analysis and to aid predictions of storage futures * Collect tuning information to share valuable performance optimizations across the community * Encourage vendors and designers to optimize for workloads beyond "hero runs" * Establish bounded expectations for users, procurers, and administrators 10 NODE I/O CHALLENGE The 10 Node Challenge is conducted using the regular IO500 benchmark, however, with the rule that exactly 10 client nodes must be used to run the benchmark. You may use any shared storage with, e.g., any number of servers. When submitting for the IO500 list, you can opt-in for "Participate in the 10 compute node challenge only", then we will not include the results into the ranked list. Other 10-node node submissions 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 IO500 list at https://io500.org/ [2] BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER Once again, we encourage you to submit [1], to join our community, and to attend our virtual BoF "The IO500 and the Virtual Institute of I/O" at SC20, where we will announce the new IO500 list, the 10 node challenge list, and the Student Cluster Competition list. We look forward to answering any questions or concerns you might have. * [1] http://www.vi4io.org/io500/submission [3] Thanks, The IO500 Committee Links: ------ [1] http://io500.org/ [2] https://io500.org/ [3] http://www.vi4io.org/io500/submission -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From curfman at anl.gov Thu Oct 8 11:37:24 2020 From: curfman at anl.gov (McInnes, Lois Curfman) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 15:37:24 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE TPDS Special Section on Innovative R&D toward the Exascale Era Message-ID: <8B1D4DFE-2278-458E-882C-8F1D6878B7EF@anl.gov> CFP: IEEE TPDS Special Section on Innovative R&D toward the Exascale Era We are pleased to announce the call for papers for a Special Section of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) on Innovative R&D toward the Exascale Era. This special section will focus on new foundational and translational research toward enabling exascale computing for emerging scientific and societal challenges. Contributions highlighting fundamental advances in software technologies and applications over the current state-of-the art will be considered. Submissions addressing challenges that are unique to exascale computing, from application and algorithm development to reliability and availability of operational IT infrastructure, are within the scope of the special section. Submission timeline: * Submission deadline: February 17, 2021 * Extended submission deadline: February 24, 2021 (no further extensions) * First-round review notification: April 7, 2021 More details are available in the call for papers: https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/td/call-for-papers-special-section-on-innovative-rd-toward-the-exascale-era We welcome submissions to this special section and would be glad to address any questions you may have. Sincerely, Sadaf Alam, Lois Curfman McInnes and Kengo Nakajima Co-editors of IEEE TPDS - Special Section on Innovative R&D toward the Exascale Era Sadaf Alam (alam at cscs.ch) Lois Curfman McInnes (curfman at anl.gov) Kengo Nakajima (nakajima at cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From samuel.kounev at uni-wuerzburg.de Wed Oct 21 09:19:30 2020 From: samuel.kounev at uni-wuerzburg.de (Samuel Kounev) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:19:30 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] First Textbook specifically focussed on "Systems Benchmarking - For Scientists and Engineers" available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We are happy to announce that our new textbook on systems benchmarking which has high relevance for the Storage Systems community has finally been published by Springer! More at: http://benchmarking-book.com This has been a long-term effort and a major milestone for us: the initial idea emerged back in 2015 and we have worked intensively over the past years to make this vision a reality. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first textbook specifically focussed on this topic. The book serves as both a textbook and handbook on the benchmarking of systems and components thereof. It provides theoretical and practical foundations as well as an in-depth exploration of modern benchmarks and benchmark development. Enjoy! Samuel Kounev, Klaus-Dieter Lange, and J?akim von Kistowski From thomas.lambert at inria.fr Fri Oct 30 16:27:04 2020 From: thomas.lambert at inria.fr (Thomas Lambert) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:27:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Storage-research-list] (Call For Participation) PDSW@SC20 : 5th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop Message-ID: <1508629361.10945970.1604089624427.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - PDSW 2020 =============================================================== The 5th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop [ http://www.pdsw.org/ | http://www.pdsw.org/ ] Thursday, 12 November 2020 10am - 5:40pm EST Held in conjunction with SC20: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, In cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. =============================================================== ### WORKSHOP ABSTRACT ### The 5th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW?20). PDSW'20 will be hosted in conjunction with SC20: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Efficient data storage and data management are crucial to scientific productivity in both traditional simulation-oriented HPC environments and Big Data analysis environments. This issue is further exacerbated by the growing volume of experimental and observational data, the widening gap between the performance of computational hardware and storage hardware and the emergence of new data-driven algorithms in machine learning. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate research that addresses the most critical challenges in scientific data storage and data processing. ### PROGRAM ### 10:00am - 10:07am Welcome & Introduction Philip Carns, Shadi Ibrahim, Kento Sato 10:07am - 11:00am Keynote: "Sink or Swim: How Not to Drown in Colossal Streams of Data?" Nitin Agrawal (ThoughtSpot) 11:00am - 11:05am Break 11:05am - 11:55am Session 1 - Session Chair: Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Keeping It Real: Why HPC Data Services Don't Achieve I/O Microbenchmark Performance Philip Carns (Argonne National Laboratory) Kevin Harms (Argonne National Laboratory) Bradley W. Settlemyer (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Brian Atkinson (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Robert B. Ross (Argonne National Laboratory) Towards On-Demand I/O Forwarding in HPC Platforms Jean Luca Bez (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Francieli Z. Boito (University of Bordeaux, Inria, CNRS, Bordeaux-INP) Alberto Miranda (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Ramon Nou (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Toni Cortes (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Polytechnic University of Catalonia) Philippe O. A. Navaux (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) 11:55am - 12:10pm Break 12:10pm - 1:27pm Session 2 - Session Chair: Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Gauge: An Interactive Data-Driven Visualization Tool for HPC Application I/O Performance Analysis Eliakin del Rosario (Texas A&M University) Mikaela Currier (Texas A&M University) Mihailo Isakov (Texas A&M University) Sandeep Madireddy (Argonne National Laboratory) Prasanna Balaprakash (Argonne National Laboratory) Philip Carns (Argonne National Laboratory) Robert B. Ross (Argonne National Laboratory) Kevin Harms (Argonne National Laboratory) Shane Snyder (Argonne National Laboratory) Michel A. Kinsy (Texas A&M University) Fractional-Overlap Declustered Parity: Evaluating Reliability for Storage Systems Huan Ke (University of Chicago) Haryadi S. Gunawi (University of Chicago) Dominic Manno (Los Alamos National Laboratory) David Bonnie (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Bradley W. Settlemyer (Los Alamos National Laboratory) GPU Direct I/O with HDF5 John Ravi (North Carolina State University) Suren Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Quincey Koziol (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) 1:27pm - 2:30pm Break 2:30pm - 3:46pm Session 3 - Session Chair: Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Emulating I/O Behavior in Scientific Workflows on High Performance Computing Systems Fahim Chowdhury (Florida State University) Yue Zhu (Florida State University) Francesco Di Natale (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Adam Moody (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Elsa Gonsiorowski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Kathryn Mohror (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Weikuan Yu (Florida State University) Pangeo Benchmarking Analysis: Object Storage vs. POSIX File System Haiying Xu (National Center for Atmospheric Research) Kevin Paul (National Center for Atmospheric Research) Anderson Banihirwe (National Center for Atmospheric Research) Fingerprinting the Checker Policies of Parallel File Systems Runzhou Han (Iowa State University) Duo Zhang (Iowa State University) Mai Zheng (Iowa State University) 3:46pm - 4:00pm Break 4:00pm - 4:25pm WIP Session - Session Chair: Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Deriving Storage Insights from the IO500 Luke Logan (Illinois Institute of Technology) Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratory ) Anthony Kougkas (Illinois Institute of Technology) Xian-He Sun (Illinois Institute of Technology) I/O Traces of HPC Applications Chen Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Kathryn Mohror (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Marc Snir (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Scalable Communication and Data Persistence Layer for NVM-based Storage Systems Hiroki Ohtsuji (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd) Takuya Okamoto (Fujitsu Ltd.) 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The eScience conference has a long history of hosting broad and well-attended workshops broadly related to eScience and co-located with the main conference. These workshops share the goal of bringing together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself, and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. Workshops may be focused on any eScience-related topic including, but not limited to, interdisciplinary research, advanced cyberinfrastructure, data science, and education. eScience 2021 accepts two types of workshop proposals: workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings, and workshops with invited talks and no proceedings. Workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings: Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a program committee, paper submission system, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals showing clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. The proceedings of the workshops will be included in the eScience 2021 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available online through the IEEE Digital Library if the following criteria will be followed: * The solicitation for papers must be open. * All the papers must be peer-reviewed by a qualified Program Committee. * The workshops Program Committee must have an appropriate size for expected number of submissions. * The workshop proceedings must have at least 4 papers (for a half-day workshop) or 6 papers (for a full-day workshop), at a length of at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages (including figure, tables, and citations) in the IEEE conference format. For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered to eScience 2021 to present the paper in person. Workshop proposals should be submitted per email to: escience2021-workshops at uibk.ac.at A proposal should be submitted as a single PDF file (up to 5 pages). The proposal should include this information: * Workshop name and acronym * Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) * Workshop length (half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full-day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks) * Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committees (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers and committee members in terms of e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, geographic areas) * Expected number of submissions/accepted papers * Prior history of this workshop, if any Workshops with invited talks and no proceedings: Workshop organizers are responsible for inviting the speakers, establishing a program in due time, organizing the selected talks into sessions, and assigning session chairs. 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A Unique Experience: Data Science, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence with the World?s Leaders in the fascinating atmosphere of the ancient Certosa di Pontignano Certosa di Pontignano, Siena - Tuscany, Italy July 19-23, 2021 https://acdl2021.icas.cc acdl at icas.cc ACDL 2021 (as ACDL 2020): an Online & Onsite Course https://acdl2021.icas.cc/acdl-2021-as-acdl-2020-an-online-onsite-course/ LECTURERS: Each Lecturer will hold three/four lessons on a specific topic. PAST LECTURERS: https://acdl2021.icas.cc/past-lecturers/ * Ioannis Antonoglou, Google DeepMind, UK * Igor Babuschkin, DeepMind - Google, London, UK * Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA * Roman Belavkin, Middlesex University London, UK * Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal, Canada * Michael Bronstein, Twitter & Imperial College London, UK * Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA * Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK * Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy * Yi-Ke Guo, Imperial College London, UK & Founding Director of Data Science Institute * Phillip Isola, MIT, USA * Leslie Kaelbling, MIT - Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, USA * Diederik P. Kingma, Google Brain, San Francisco, CA, USA * Ilias S. Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada * Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin, USA * Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google * Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA * Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, MIT & Director of MIT?s Human Dynamics Laboratory, USA * Jos? C. Principe, University of Florida, USA * Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Facebook AI Research Lab, New York, USA * Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark * Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University, and AI Research at Apple, USA * Guido Sanguinetti, The University of Edinburgh, UK * Josh Tenenbaum, MIT, USA * Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University, Israel * Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Cambridge * Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands * Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind, UK SCOPE: The Advanced Course is not a summer school suited only for younger scholars. Rather, a significant proportion of seasoned investigators are regularly present among the attendees, often senior and junior faculty at their own institutions. The balanced audience that we strive to maintain in each Advanced Course greatly contributes to the development of intense cross-disciplinary debates among faculty and participants that typically address the most advanced and emerging areas of each topic. Each faculty member presents lectures and discusses with the participants for one entire day. Such long interaction together with the small, exclusive Course size provides the uncommon opportunity to fully explore the expertise of each faculty, often through one-to-one mentoring. This is unparalleled and priceless. The Certosa di Pontignano provides the perfect setting to a relaxed yet intense learning atmosphere, with the stunning backdrop of the Tuscan landscapes. World-class wines and traditional foods will make the Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning the experience of a lifetime. VENUE: The venue of ACDL 2021 will be The Certosa di Pontignano ? Siena Dr. Lorenzo Pasquinuzzi The Certosa di Pontignano Localit? Pontignano, 5 ? 53019, Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena) ? Tuscany ? Italy phone: +39-0577-1521104 fax: +39-0577-1521098 info at lacertosadipontignano.com https://www.lacertosadipontignano.com/en/index.php A few Kilometres from Siena, on a hill dominating the town stands the ancient Certosa di Pontignano, a unique place where nature, history and hospitality blend together in memorable harmony. Built in the 1300, its medieval structure remains intact with additions of the following centuries. The Certosa is centred on its historic cloisters and gardens. https://acdl2021.icas.cc/venue/ ACCOMMODATION: https://acdl2021.icas.cc/accommodation/ PAST EDITIONS https://acdl2021.icas.cc/past-editions/ https://acdl2018.icas.xyz https://acdl2019.icas.xyz https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/ REGISTRATION: https://acdl2021.icas.cc/registration/ Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2021 should register as soon as possible! Similarly for accommodation at the Certosa di Pontignano (the School Venue), book your full board accommodation at the Certosa as soon as possible! All course participants should/must stay at the Certosa di Pontignano. See you in 3D or 2D :) in Tuscany next July! ACDL 2021 Organizing Committee. acdl at icas.cc https://acdl2021.icas.cc https://www.facebook.com/groups/204310640474650/ https://twitter.com/TaoSciences -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thomas.prantl at uni-wuerzburg.de Thu Nov 19 09:44:53 2020 From: thomas.prantl at uni-wuerzburg.de (Thomas Prantl) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:44:53 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Special Issue on "Self-aware Computing Systems: Applications, Engineering and Evaluation" Message-ID: <20201119144453.Horde.jYYNg50s-0DzaqflBhC6AVu@webmail.uni-wuerzburg.de> Dear colleagues, This Special Issue addresses all facets of research in the area of self-aware computing systems and related disciplines (Autonomic Computing, SASO systems, Organic Computing, Pervasive Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Multi-agent systems ...), including fundamental science and theory, levels and aspects, architectures for individual and collective systems, methods and algorithms for model learning, self-adaptation in individual and collective systems, transition strategies for increasing self-awareness in existing systems, open challenges and future research directions, as well as applications and case studies. In this Special Issue, particular emphasis will be given on real applications of self-aware computing principles and to the evaluation of these systems, including objectives, metrics, tools, procedure, methodologies, reference systems, and benchmarks. Especially, authors presented papers at the Workshop on Self-Aware Computing (SeAC 2020) and the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2020), but also those from other conferences, are invited to submit their extended versions to this Special Issue. All submitted papers will undergo our standard peer-review procedure. Extended conference papers should cite the original contribution on the first page of the paper; authors are asked to disclose that it is a conference paper in their cover letter and include a statement on what has been changed compared to the original conference paper. Please note that the submitted extended paper should contain at least 50% new content (e.g., in the form of technical extensions, more in-depth evaluations, or additional use cases) and not exceed 30% copy/paste from the conference paper. # Areas of Interest In this special issue, we aim to cover all topics concerning self-aware computing systems and related disciplines (Autonomic Computing, SASO systems, Organic Computing, Pervasive Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Multi-agent systems ...). We expect contributions to cover at least one of the following aspects (although this list is by no means exhaustive, leaving the call open to other related contributions): ? Fundamental science and theory of self-aware computing systems ? Levels and aspects of self-aware computing systems ? Architectures for individual and collective systems ? Measurements, quality assurance, and evaluation in self-aware systems ? Verification & validation and testing ? Tool support for evaluation and measurements, and quality assurance; ? Methods and algorithms for model learning (self-modeling) and reasoning ? Self-adaptation in individual and collective systems ? Synthesis and verification metrics and benchmarks ? Transition strategies for increasing self-awareness in existing systems ? Open challenges and future research directions ? Applications and case studies: cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, data centers, dependable computing, industrial internet / industry 4.0, internet of things, mobile computing, service-oriented systems, smart buildings, smart city, smart grid / energy management, smart factory, traffic management, autonomous robotics, and space applications. # Submission As an incentive, all article processing charges (APC) for articles accepted as part of this Special Issue will be waived (not only for workshop authors). More information regarding the special issue and the submission can be found at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/array/call-for-papers/self-aware-computing-systems-theory-application-and-eval # Time schedule ? Submission system opens: September 1, 2020 ? Paper submission deadline: December 31, 2020 (firm) ? Final acceptance: May 31, 2021 ? Planned publication: August 1, 2021 # Guest editors ? Christian Krupitzer (Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t, W?rzburg, Germany) ? Peter Lewis (Aston University, Birmingham, UK) ? Ilias Gerostathopoulos (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands) From simon.eismann at uni-wuerzburg.de Sun Dec 6 13:38:39 2020 From: simon.eismann at uni-wuerzburg.de (Simon Eismann) Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:38:39 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CfP: 4rd HotCloudPerf workshop in conjunction with ACM/SPEC ICPE2021 Message-ID: <20201206183839.Horde.GSYM4gWxAiSqean36SOmVWk@webmail.uni-wuerzburg.de> === The Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance === (HotCloudPerf-2021) ?Focus Theme: Benchmarking in the Cloud.? https://hotcloudperf.spec.org VENUE: Held in conjunction with ICPE, April 19 or 20, 2021, Rennes, France. Contact: hotcloudperf2021[at]easychair.org IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) January 15, 2021 Abstract due (informative) January 20, 2021 Papers due February 11, 2021 Author Notification February 22, 2021 Camera-ready deadline April 19 or 20, 2021 Workshop Day WORKSHOP THEME AND BACKGROUND 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 2021, the theme is ?benchmarking in the cloud.? Articles focusing on this topic are particularly encouraged for HotCloudPerf-2021. 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, 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 SCOPE AND TOPICS Topics of the focus-theme for 2021 is ?Benchmarking in the Cloud?. Articles focusing on this topic are particularly encouraged for HotCloudPerf-2021. Long-running topics of the HotCloudPerf workshop include, but are not limited to: 1. Empirical performance studies in cloud computing environments, applications, and systems, including observation, measurement, and surveys. 2. Comparative performance studies and benchmarking of cloud environments, applications, and systems. 3. Performance analysis using modeling and queueing theory for cloud environments, applications, and systems. 4. Simulation-based studies for all aspects of cloud computing performance. 5. Tuning and auto-tuning of systems operating in cloud environments, e.g., auto-scaling of resources and auto-tiering of data, optimized resource deployment. 6. Software patterns and architectures for engineering cloud performance, e.g., serverless. 7. Experience with and analysis of performance of cloud deployment models, including IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/FaaS. 8. End-to-end performance engineering for pipelines and workflows in cloud environments, or of applications with non-trivial SLAs. 9. Tools for monitoring and studying cloud computing performance. 10. General and specific methods and methodologies for understanding and engineering cloud performance. 11. Serverless computing platforms and microservices in cloud datacenters. ARTICLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit the following types of contributions: * Talk only: Extended abstract limited to 1-2 pages (without formatting restrictions) * Full paper limited to 6 pages (double column, ACM conference format) * Short paper limited to 3 pages (double column, ACM conference format) Contributions in the 1st category (as Talk only) may have already been (partially) presented at other events or in publications and are not included in the conference proceedings. Contributions in the 2nd and 3rd category (technical papers) must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Full papers may report on original research, lessons learned from realizing an approach, or experiences on transferring a research prototype into practice. Short papers may report on work-in-progress, a tool/demo, or present a vision or position motivating the community to address new challenges. Articles and talk only contributions are required to be submitted via the EasyChair system of HotCloudPerf-2021: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hotcloudperf2021 Articles must use the ACM conference format. Each valid submission will receive at least three (3) peer reviews. Articles must use the ACM conference format. Each valid submission will receive at least three (3) peer reviews. Presented papers will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. Adhering to ACM guidelines for conferences, ICPE requires that at least one author of each accepted paper attends (in person or remote) the workshop and presents the paper. COVID-19 TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS: The organizing committee is working hard to put together a great HotCloudPerf (and ICPE), and to welcome you in Rennes. At this point, however, due to the uncertainty around the COVID pandemic, we cannot guarantee this is possible. We also recognize the challenges some of our community members might face in travelling. Therefore, currently, the conference model is on-site with remote participation facilities - meaning, we are looking forward to a live event, but will provide the required infrastructure for online presence. For more information, pelase contact us: hotcloudperf2021 at easychair.org ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Cristina L. Abad (ESPOL, Ecuador) Nikolas Herbst (U. W?rzburg, Germany) Alexandru Uta (Leiden University, the Netherlands) Alexandru Iosup (VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Cristina L. Abad, ESPOL, Ecuador Ahmed Ali-Edin, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden Marta Beltran, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Andre Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, USA Marc Brooker, Amazon Web Services, USA Lucy Cherkasova, ARM Research, USA Dmitry Duplyakin, University of Utah, USA Bogdan Ghit, Databricks, The Netherlands Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany Nikolas Herbst, U. W?rzburg, Germany Alexandru Iosup, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands Alessandro Papadopoulos, M?lardalen University, Sweden Joel Scheuner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden Petr T?ma, Charles University, Czech Republic Alexandru Uta, Leiden University, The Netherlands Erwin van Eyk, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andr? van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Chen Wang, IBM, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M.Sc. Simon Eismann Doctoral Researcher Chair of Software Engineering Department of Computer Science University of W?rzburg Am Hubland, Informatikgeb?ude (M2), Room 107/108 97074 W?rzburg, Germany Phone: +49 (931) 31 89655, Fax: +49 (931) 31-86603 http://go.uni-wuerzburg.de/eismann/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From simon.eismann at uni-wuerzburg.de Tue Dec 8 17:41:53 2020 From: simon.eismann at uni-wuerzburg.de (Simon Eismann) Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 22:41:53 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CfP: 3rd Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering in conjunction with ACM/SPEC ICPE2021 Message-ID: <20201208224153.Horde.lAlJvyA1_Ptv5m11c32E0br@webmail.uni-wuerzburg.de> === 3rd Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering (WEPPE) === A Joint Meeting of WOSP/SIPEW sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGSOFT in Cooperation with SPEC. Held in conjunction with ICPE, April 19 or 20, 2021, Rennes, France. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) January 15, 2021 Abstract due (informative) January 20, 2021 Papers due February 11, 2021 Author Notification February 22, 2021 Camera-ready deadline April 19 or 20, 2021 Workshop Day WORKSHOP SCOPE AND TOPICS The goal of the Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering is to bring together University researchers and Industry Performance Engineers to share education and practice experiences. We are interested in creating opportunities to share experiences between researchers that are actively teaching performance engineering and of Performance Engineers that are applying Performance Engineering techniques in industry. Topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to Education and Practice of: - Performance in the Data Center, Cloud, Blockchain, IoT, Sensor Networks, and ML/AI - Performance methods in software development - Model-driven performance engineering - Performance modeling and prediction - Performance measurement and experimental analysis - Benchmarks (workloads, scenarios, and implementations) - Run-time performance and capacity management - Performance in cloud, virtualized, and multi-core systems - Performance-driven resource and power management - Performance of big data systems - Performance modeling and evaluation in other domains - Performance requirements specification - Performance testing and validation - Relationship between performance engineering and architecture - All other topics related to performance engineering - Education of other quantitative attributes such as reliability, availability, power consumption, safety, security and survivability ARTICLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES A variety of contribution styles for papers are solicited including: two-page abstracts, presentation, basic and applied research papers for novel scientific insights, industrial and experience papers reporting on education and or practice of the application of performance engineering or benchmarks in practice, and work-in-progress/vision papers for ongoing but yet interesting 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 topic and contribution style when submitting their papers. We specifically encourage position papers of at most 6 pages and experience reports of at most 10 pages. Submissions need to be uploaded to ICPE?s Easychair installation at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=weppe2021 At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register at workshop at the full rate, attend the workshop and present the paper. Presented papers will be published in the ICPE 2021 conference proceedings that will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. After the conference there will be a call for a special issue of a journal. GENERAL CHAIRS Alberto Avritzer, eSulabSolutions Kishor Trivedi, Duke University Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam WEBSITE CHAIRS Alberto Avritzer, eSulabSolutions PROGRAM COMMITTEE (PRELIMINARY) Cristina Abad, Escuela Superior Polit?cnica del Litoral Alberto Avritzer, eSulabSolutions Steffen Becker, Stuttgart University Andre Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting David Daly, MongoDB, Vittoria de Nito Persone, Tor Vergata University Andre Van Hoorn, Univ Stuttgart Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico Milano Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services Dorina Petriu, Carleton Univ. Evgenia Smirni, William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA Connie Smith, Performance Engineering Services (PES) Kishor Trivedi, Duke Univ. Catia Trubiani, GSSI L?Aquila Ana-Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam Murray Woodside, Carleton University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ M.Sc. Simon Eismann Doctoral Researcher Chair of Software Engineering Department of Computer Science University of W?rzburg Am Hubland, Informatikgeb?ude (M2), Room 107/108 97074 W?rzburg, Germany Phone: +49 (931) 31 89655, Fax: +49 (931) 31-86603 http://go.uni-wuerzburg.de/eismann/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From jtacquaviva at ddn.com Wed Dec 9 03:46:24 2020 From: jtacquaviva at ddn.com (Jean-Thomas Acquaviva) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 08:46:24 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] =?windows-1252?q?=5BCFP=5D_7th_HPC_I/O_in?= =?windows-1252?q?_the_Data_Center_Workshop_=28HPC-IODC=9221=29_in_conjunc?= =?windows-1252?q?tion_with_ISC_2021?= In-Reply-To: <3CB3BBF4-7E77-4966-BF7B-C6DB244C7B70@pnnl.gov> References: <3CB3BBF4-7E77-4966-BF7B-C6DB244C7B70@pnnl.gov> Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] The 7th HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (HPC-IODC?21) in conjunction with ISC High Performance Digital. https://hps.vi4io.org/events/2021/iodc == Workshop overview == Managing scientific data at a 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 built on the following 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 an abstract for your talk. 3) student mentoring sessions - short talks from students to get constructive feedback from the community to help the students advance in their studies. 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=hpciodc21 == Track: research papers == We are excited to announce that research papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series and extended manuscripts in the new open-access Journal of High-Performance Storage (https://jhps.vi4io.org/) as well. The research track accepts papers covering state-of-the-practice and research dedicated to storage in the datacenter. We accept papers with up to 12 pages (excl. references) in LNCS format. For accepted papers, the length of the talk during the workshop depends on the controversiality and novelty of the approach (the length is decided based on the preference provided by the authors and feedback from the reviewers). All relevant work in the area of data center storage will be able to be published with our joint workshop proceedings, we just believe the available time should be used best to discuss controversial topics. === Topics === The relevant topics for papers cover all aspects of data center I/O including: * application workflows * user productivity and costs * performance monitoring * dealing with heterogeneous storage * data management aspects * archiving and long term data management * state-of-the-practice (e.g., using or optimizing a storage system for data center workloads) * research that tackles data center I/O challenges === Paper Deadlines === * Submission deadline: 2021-02-24 AoE * Author notification: 2021-04-24 * Pre-final submission: 2021-06-10 * Workshop: 2021-06-25 == 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: 2021-04-10 AoE * Author notification: 2021-05-03 == Student Mentoring Sessions == To foster the next generation of data-related practitioners and researchers, students are encouraged to submit an abstract following the expert talk guidelines above as far as their research is aligned with these topics. At the workshop, the students will be given 10 minutes to talk about what they are working on followed by 10-15 minutes of conversation with the community present about how to further the work, what the impact could be, alternative research directions, and other topics to help the students progress in their studies. We encourage students to work with a shepherd towards a JHPS paper illustrating their research based on the feedback obtained during the workshop. == Program committee == * Thomas Boenisch (High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart) * Suren Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) * Matthew Curry (Sandia National Laboratories) * Sandro Fiore (University of Trento) * Wolfgang Frings (Juelich Supercomputing Centre) * Javier Garcia (Blas Carlos III University) * Stefano Gorini (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre) * Adrian Jackson (The University of Edinburgh) * Ivo Jimenez (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Anthony Kougkas (Illinois Institute of Technology) * Glenn Lockwood (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) * Carlos Maltzahn (University of California, Santa Cruz) * George S. Markomanolis (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) * Sandra Mendez (Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)) * Robert Ross (Argonne National Laboratory) * Feiyi Wang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) * Xue Wei (Tsinghua University) * Bing Xie (Oak Ridge National Lab) == Organizers == * Julian Kunkel (University of Reading) * Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories) * Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN) ---- Jean-Thomas Acquaviva +33.615.95.6306 DDN Storage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iis.eastlab at gmail.com Mon Dec 14 21:20:54 2020 From: iis.eastlab at gmail.com (Yuan-Hao Chang, ACM TECS Guest Editor) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:20:54 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [ACM TECS] Call for Papers of SI: "Memory and Storage Systems for Embedded and IoT Applications" (Submission Deadline: Feb. 1st, 2020) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Special Issue on "Memory and Storage Systems for Embedded and IoT Applications" is open for submissions through 1st February, 2020. The Call For Papers lists the topics within the scope of the Special Issue: https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tecs/pdf/tecs-si-cfp-09-2020-Memory-Storage-Systems-Embedded-IoT-Apps-1603203499763.pdf Submissions can be made through the https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tecs website by choosing "Memory and Storage Systems for Embedded and IoT Applications"; please also specify the special issue title in the cover letter of your submission. Best Regards, Yuan-Hao Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (johnson at iis.sinica.edu.tw), Guest Editor Jalil Boukhobza, ENSTA-Bretagne, Lab-STICC UMR CNRS 6285, France ( boukhobza at univ-brest.fr), Guest Editor Song Han, University of Connecticut, United States (song at engr.uconn.edu), Guest Editor ------------------------- With the rapid advances in sensing and communication technologies, embedded systems (e.g., IoT and edge devices) have evolved tremendously in recent years. On the other hand, data-intensive applications are more and more used on such platforms, propelled by the extensive use of machine learning. However, embedded systems usually have limited energy, computing power, and memory/storage space. Thus, new technologies (e.g., 3D stacking and low-power design) for DRAM main-memory have emerged to reduce the energy consumption and increase the memory capacity for the use of novel embedded and IoT applications such as autonomous vehicles and healthcare. Meanwhile, 3D TLC/QLC flash memory has been developed to increase the cell density and storage capacity to provide low-cost yet small feature-sized storage in embedded and IoT applications. At the same time, non-volatile memories (e.g., STT-MRAM and PCM) has emerged as popular alternatives to replace DRAM and/or flash memory, while some other new types of memories (e.g., ReRAM and FRAM) and upcoming ones linking logic and storage with in-memory computing (or computation-in-memory) are more and more investigated opening new horizons to memory hierarchy design. These new advances in memory and storage devices introduce new opportunities but simultaneously create challenges to rethink the memory hierarchy for embedded and IoT applications, from the hardware design up to the software and algorithmic aspects. This is especially true for several domains such as real-time systems, multimedia, energy-harvesting, e-health, and transportations. Such a paradigm shift also incurs new challenges to the interplay between design methodologies for embedded and IoT systems with the 3D stacking memory, emerging non-volatile memories, or new types of memories. As those new technologies have specific architectures and characteristics, a particular attention must be drawn to their integration. New cross-layer optimization methodologies are needed to optimize the system timing or energy performance and to handle the reliability issues. There is an urgent need for technology innovation, modeling, analysis, design, and tools for memory and storage in embedded and IoT systems at every layer of the encompassing system architecture, from application to the hardware integration and from sensors to the Cloud. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems seeks original manuscripts for a special issue on ?Memory and Storage Systems for Embedded and IoT Applications?. This special issue will cover recent memory and storage system design techniques for embedded and IoT applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design-space exploration for memory and storage systems * Power and performance issues for memory and storage architecture/management * Security and reliability techniques for memory and storage architecture/management * Cross-layer design methodologies for memory hierarchy * 3D stacking memory and emerging memory devices integration * Near-data and in-memory computation paradigm * Hybrid memory and unified memory design * File system and database designs * Compiler and OS optimization for emerging memory and storage * Modeling, simulation and analysis for memory and storage * Storage and memory design issues for emerging application scenarios, such as energy-harvesting computation, etc. * Data storage and memory management interplay between embedded and IoT systems / edge / Cloud. Paper Submission Prospective authors should follow the submission guidelines for ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. All manuscripts must be submitted electronically to the ACM Manuscript Central Web site at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tecs . Indicate that you are submitting your article to the special issue on ?Memory and Storage Systems for Embedded and IoT Applications?. All papers will undergo the standard ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems review process. Schedule * Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: December 1, 2020 * Closed for submissions: February 1, 2021 * Results of first round of reviews: April 01, 2021 * Submission of revised manuscripts: June 01, 2021 * Results of second round of reviews: August 01, 2021 * Publication materials due: November 15, 2021 [image: beacon] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michal.f at cs.technion.ac.il Tue Dec 15 13:12:47 2020 From: michal.f at cs.technion.ac.il (michal.f) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:12:47 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: ACM SYSTOR 2021 HYBRID (ONLINE + PHYSICAL), June 14 - 16, Online + Haifa, Israel Message-ID: <8804ab352a111165ca57bf1634f0fdd7@cs.technion.ac.il> [apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ============================================================ C A L L F O R P A P E R S A C M S Y S T O R 2 0 2 1 H Y B R I D 14th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference June 14 - 16, 2021, Online + Haifa, Israel https://www.systor.org/2021/cfp.html [1] Paper Submission Deadline: March 9, 2021 Conference Format: ================= For the health and safety of our community, the SYSTOR conference will be held in a hybrid format. Physical attendance will not be mandatory. Conference Scope: ================= The ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR) is an excellent international forum for interaction across the systems research community. The program includes innovative, peer-reviewed research papers in the broad area of systems and storage, as well as distinguished keynote lecturers. ACM SYSTOR is designed to appeal to academic and industrial researchers and practitioners, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals. Topics: ================= 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 Tracks: ================= 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 Abstract Track - original work presented as poster accompanied by the extended abstract Informal Student Presentations - informal presentation of research findings, co-located with the poster session Important Dates: ================= Full and Short Papers Track Paper Submission March 9, 2021 Acceptance Notification April 25, 2021 Camera-ready May 21, 2021 Highlight Papers Track Extended Abstract Submission March 19, 2021 Acceptance Notification April 30, 2021 Posters with Extended Abstract Track Poster & Abstract Submission March 19, 2021 Acceptance Notification April 26, 2021 Camera-ready May 3, 2021 Informal Student Poster Presentations Track Poster Submission May 14, 2021 Acceptance Notification May 21, 2021 Program Chairs: =============== Vijay Chidambaram (University of Texas at Austin / VMWare Research, USA) Danny Raz (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Program Committee: ================== Aastha Mehta (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems / The University of British Columbia) Adriana Szekeres (VMWare Research) Aishwarya Ganesan (VMWare Research) Amy Tai (VMWare Research) Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Anirudh Badam (Microsoft Research Redmond) Anusha S (Salesforce) Arpan Gujarati (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) Ashvin Goel (University of Toronto) Avani Wildani (Emory University) Cristina L. Abad (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL)) Huaicheng Li (Carnegie Mellon University) James Mickens (Harvard University) Jeanna Matthews (Clarkson University) Jonathan Balkind (University of California, Santa Barbara) Laurent Bindschaedler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) Lukas Rupprecht (IBM Research Almaden) Ming Liu (VMWare Research / University of Wisconsin-Madison) Moshe Gabel (University of Toronto) Muhammad Shahbaz (Stanford University / Purdue University) Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (University of Haifa) Patrick P. C. Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Prateek Sharma (Indiana University) Ram Alaggapan (VMWare Research) Rob Johnson (VMWare Research) Sanidhya Kashyap (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)) Sasha Fedorova (University of British Columbia) Sudarsun Kannan (Rutgers University) Thanumalayan Pillai (Google) Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research Almaden) Yongle Zhang (Purdue University) Yosi Gilad (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Youjip Won (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) Youngjin Kwon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) Youyou Lu (Tsinghua University) Yuta Tokusashi (University of Cambridge) Zhihao Jia (Carnegie Mellon University) General Chair: ============== Bruno Wassermann (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Michal Malka (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Poster Chair: ============= Idan Levy (RedHat, Israel) Publication Chair: ================== Joel Nider (University of British Columbia, Canada) Publicity Chair: ================ Michal Friedman (Technion, Israel) Local Arrangements Chair: ========================= Viktoriia Forykova (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) Links: ------ [1] https://www.systor.org/2021/cfp.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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