Friday 29 November 2013

The International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) submissions of high-quality posters

The International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) invites submissions
of high-quality posters. The poster session is intended to showcase
unpublished work in progress in the topics covered by ICS. The titles,
abstracts, and authors of accepted posters will be listed in the
conference proceedings. Eligible student posters will be also included
into the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC).

General Poster Submission Requirements
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All poster participants must submit the following information:

? The title of the poster and a list of author names, affiliations, and
the name of the academic advisor if it is a student poster.
? A camera-ready abstract of the poster, up to 100 words.
? A separate description outlining the content of the poster, up to 800
words, which describes the research problem, motivation and background,
techniques and results, and the prospect for clearly and concisely
conveying the work in a poster format. Further, it should emphasize the
novel contributions of the work explicitly.
? Please indicate the eligibility for SRC of your poster & whether you
are an undergraduate or graduate student. Entering the SRC is optional.
Competition-eligible posters must be authored solely by an ACM student
member, with student status as of March 14, 2014.

A panel of experts will evaluate the submissions based on novelty of
approach, significance of contribution, and quality of work.

ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)
================================

Sponsored by ACM and Microsoft Research, the SRC is a forum for students
to share research results, exchange ideas, and improve their
communication skills while competing for prizes. Students accepted to
participate in the SRC are entitled to a travel grant (up to $500) to
help cover travel expenses. The top 3 undergraduate and graduate winners
will receive the following prizes:

? Monetary prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively.
? A 2-year ACM Student membership with ACM Digital Library subscription.
? Winners' names & abstracts will be posted on ACM's SRC web site.
? The first place undergraduate and graduate winners from all SRCs for
the program year receive invitations to compete in the Grand Finals

Please review the SRC website at http://src.acm.org/ for more details.


Important dates:

Poster submission: March 7, 2014 (Friday) AOE Student Research
submission: March 7, 2014 (Friday) AOE Poster notification: March 28,
2014 (Friday) ACM Student research notification: March 28, 2014 (Friday)
Final abstract submission: April 7, 2014 (Monday) AOE Early registration
deadline: April 28, 2014 (Monday)
Conference: 10?13 June 2014

AOE (Anywhere on Earth) dates shown above mean the deadlines are at
11:59pm UTC-12:00 of the days. The above dates are tentative and subject
to change. Consult the conference website for the most up-to-date
scheduling information.


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  Seconda Universita' di Napoli
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Thursday 28 November 2013

Mantle, creating a unified industry - AMD Gaming Evolved Newsletter

Mantle, creating a unified industry
Mantle is a new and better way to bring the code developers are already writing for next-generation consoles to life on the PC. It achieves this by being similar to, and often compatible with, the code they are already writing for those platforms. The ultimate goal of Mantle is to give gamers the ultimate performance in compatible games, and doing that in such a way that developers are free to put forth whatever effort is required to ensure optimal performance for competing platforms.

Partners on Mantle so far include DICECloud ImperiumEidos-MontrĂ©alOxide Games, and Rebellion Entertainment. The first experience you’ll get to have with Mantle is when support is patched into Battlefield 4™ - coming soon. Watch Johan Andersson from EA/DICE, makers of Battlefield 4™, talk about AMD's Mantle API, why he's so excited about it, and what he believes it means for the future of PC games.

Learn More
AMD TrueAudio TechnologyExperience AMD TrueAudio
Put on your headphones and get a preview of AMD TrueAudio technology1 in the upcoming game LICHDOM and hear the difference for yourself.

AMD TrueAudio technology introduces a new level of immersion. GPUs aren't just for graphics any more. With more acoustic bandwidth and capabilities for developers to play with, plus a healthy slug of extra audio performance, you get a richer in-game soundscape. You'll hear your opponents coming with breathtaking audio realism. It's your game taken to an entirely new dimension. Radeon™ is faster. Radeon is immersive. Radeon is gaming.

Learn More
Red TeamBattlefield 4 (1000 key giveaway)
Join the Red Team and like our Facebook announcement post before December 2nd at 12pm EST for your chance to win 1 of 1000 Battlefield 4™ game codes! Already a member? Like our Facebook post announcement to be entered! A random draw to choose the winners will be held on December 3rd. Rules and conditions:http://www.amd.com/BF4CodeGiveaway
Join the Red Team
AMD Fan DayAMD Fan Day
The AMD EA Fan Day at APU13 in San Jose earlier this month was a huge success! Over 500 fans attended the all-day event which was full of giveaways, partner booths and the first ever Battlefield 4 LAN Party. Thank you to all that came out!

Follow us on FacebookTwitter, and Raptr for all the latest news on community events.

1 AMD TrueAudio™ technology is offered on select AMD Radeon™ R9 and R7 200 Series GPUs and is designed to improve acoustic realism. Requires an enabled game or application. Not all audio equipment supports all audio effects; additional audio equipment may be required for some audio effects. Not all products feature all technologies—check with your component or system manufacturer for specific capabilities. 
  
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ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2014 (CF'14)

ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2014 (CF'14)
May 20 - 22, 2014, Cagliari, Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS

www.computingfrontiers.org
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Computing Frontiers represents an engaged, collaborative
community of researchers who are excited about transformational
technologies in the field of computing. We are presently on the
cusp of several revolutions, including new memory technologies,
networking technologies, algorithms for handling large-scale data,
power-saving and energy-efficient solutions for data centers,
systems solutions for cloud computing, and many, many more.
Boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation
constitute the computing frontiers that must be pushed forward to
advance science, engineering, and information technology.
Before revolutionary materials, devices, and systems enter the
mainstream, early research must be performed using far-reaching
projections of the future state of technologies.

Computing Frontiers is a gathering for people to share and discuss
such work, focusing on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and
radically new solutions relevant to the development of the whole
spectrum of computer systems, from embedded to high-performance
computing.



KEY DATES
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Abstract submission: January 11, 2014
Submissions deadline: January 18, 2014
Notification: February 28, 2014
Camera-Copy Papers Due: March 15, 2014



TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We seek contributions that push the envelope in a wide range of
computing topics, ranging from more traditional research in
architecture and systems to new technologies and devices. We seek
contributions on novel computing paradigms, computational models,
algorithms, application paradigms, development environments,
compilers, operating environments, computer architecture,
hardware substrates, and memory technologies. We are also
interested in emerging fields that may not fit within traditional
categories.

* Algorithms and Models of Computing
approximate and inexact computing, quantum and probabilistic
computing

* Big Data
analytics, machine learning, search and representation, system
design

* System Complexity Management
cloud systems, datacenters, computational neuroscience,
biologically-inspired architectures</li>

* Computers and Society
education, health and cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities,
emerging markets

* Security
architecture and systems support for protection against malicious
code

* Limits on Technology Scaling and Moore's Law
defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other
novel materials, nanoscale design, optoelectronics, dark silicon

* Uses of Technology Scaling
3D stacked technology, challenges of manycore designs,
PCM's, novel memory architectures, mobile devices

* Compiler technologies
novel techniques to push the envelope on new technologies,
applications, hardware/software integrated solutions, advanced
analysis

* Networking
technology and protocols, bandwidth management, social networks,
internet of things



SUBMISSION
==========

Authors are invited to submit full papers to the main conference.
Full papers must be submitted through the conference paper
submission site and should not exceed 10 double-column pages
in standard ACM conference format, including figures, tables, and
references. As per ACM guidelines, at least one of the authors
of accepted papers is required to register for the conference.



ORGANIZATION
============

Computing Frontiers 2014 Chairs

General Chair: Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CY
Program Chairs: Diana Franklin, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, US
Sally A. McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Finance Chair: Carsten Trinitis, TUM, DE/Univ. of Bedfordshire, UK
Local Arrangements Chair:
Francesca Palumbo, University of Cagliari, IT
Poster Chair: Hubertus Franke, IBM, US
Publicity Chairs:
Mohamed Zahran, New York University, US
Rui Hou, Inst. of Comp. Tech., Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN
Publication Chair:
Roberto Gioiosa, PNNL, US
Web Chair: Josef Weidendorfer, TU Muenchen, DE


Program Committee Members

Bridget Benson California Polytechnic University,
San Luis Obispo, US
Haibo Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN
David Black-Schaffer Uppsala University, SE
Marcelo Cintra Intel, DE
Hadi Esmailzadeh Georgia Tech, US
Hubertus Franke IBM, US
Michael Franz University of California at Irvine, US
Maria Gini University of Minnesota, US
Dimitris Gizopoulos University of Athens, GR
Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, CH
Koji Inoue Kyushu University, JP
Engin Ipek University of Rochester, UK
Mahmut Kandemir Penn State University, US
Ryan Kastner University of California at San Diego, US
Gokcen Kestor Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US
John Kim KAIST, KR
Cetin Koc University of California at Santa Barbara, US
Gabriel Loh AMD Research, US
Guoping Long Institute of Software,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN
Mauro Migliardi University of Padua, IT
Katerina Mitrokotsa Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Dimitrios Nikolopulos Queen's University of Belfast, IR
Magnus Sjaelander Florida State University, US
Leonel Sousa Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, PT
Lingjia Tang University of Michigan, US
Michela Taufer University of Delaware, US
Gary Tyson Florida State University, US
Carole-Jean Wu Arizona State University, US
Jin Xiong Institute of Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN
Zhibin Yu Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN
Lixin Zhang Institute of Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN


Computing Frontiers 2014 Steering Committee

Monica Alderighi, INAF, IT
Paolo Faraboschi, HP, ES
Hubertus Franke, IBM, US
John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, US
Georgi Gaydadjiev, Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Alex Heinecke, TU Muenchen, DE
Paul H. J. Kelly, Imperial College London, UK
Sally A. McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Valentina Salapura, IBM TJ Watson, US
Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CY
Carsten Trinitis, TUM, DE/Univ. of Bedfordshire, UK
Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Architecture Research, US


CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS INFOCOMP 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

INFOCOMP 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Advanced
Communications and Computation

July 20 - 24, 2014 - Paris, France


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/INFOCOMP14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPINFOCOMP14.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitINFOCOMP14.html


Submission deadline: February 28, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:
http://www.thinkmind.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


INFOCOMP 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


Large scale and fast computation

Developments in information and computing systems; Grid computing; Cloud
computing; Pervasive / ubiquitous computing; Services computing and
Opportunistic computing; High Performance Computing (HPC); Fast data
processing; Real-time processing; Fast switching and routing protocols;
Parallelization of algorithms and applications; Energy-efficient High
Performance Computing; Large scale data visualization; Tools for
parallelization; Highly performance codes; Optimization; Innovative
architectures; Distributed systems, dynamical systems; Future
architectures, integrated systems, beyond cloud, reaching exaflop;
Supercomputing architectures, operation, and management; Petascale,
Exascale; Big data, dCache; HPC centers, data centers; Benchmarking;
Green500, Graph500, Top500; Service provisioning; Green computing,
cooling techniques

Programming models

Programming languages and parallel algorithms; Message Passing Interface
(MPI), OpenMP; Massively Parallel Processing, Symmetric
Multi-Processing; PGAS, GASPI, CAF (Co-array Fortran), UPC (Unified
Parallel C); X10, Chapel, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenACC, OpenHMPP, Lime, OmpSs,
OpenStream; Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM); Programming paradigms;
Manycore, multicore; CPU, GPU, FPGA, accelerators; Chip design,
architectures, and programming; Fault tolerance, troubleshooting,
debugging; High end issues, latency, concurrency

Networks/systems communications

Cross-layer design and optimization; Cyber-physical systems and
networks; Data centers, virtualization, and cloud networks;
Delay/disruption tolerant networks; Future Internet broadband services;
Software Defined Networks (SDN); Fast networks / InfiniBand
architectures for future interactive multicore applications; Sensor
networks and embedded systems; Ad hoc mobile networks; Access
technologies; P2P networks; Optical networks; Cellular and broadband
wireless networks; Mobility models and mobile networks; Multicast,
broadcast and anycast; Multimedia protocols and networking; Software
defined radio and cognitive radio networking; Content-based network
service; Certification, public key infrastructures, data integrity;
Privacy and anonymity

Networks/systems measurement, control and management

Networks/systems measurement, simulation and emulation; Network-,
system-, and application-management; Congestion control and capacity
planning; Dynamic spectrum management; Addressing and location
management; Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE);
Quality of Data (QoD) and Quality of Context (QoC); e-Commerce,
accounting, pricing and billing; Highly parallel file systems, Lustre,
GPFS; Interconnects, high speed ethernet; Use of distributed compute and
storage resources; Energy-aware mechanisms for control and management;
Configuration, reuse of software components; Resource allocation and
management; Denial of service mitigation and prevention; System and data
security; Communication visualization

Advanced applications

Scientific, theoretical, methodological, practical, and technical
contributions; Advanced scientific computing; Simulation and modelling
(scientific applications, engineering, industry); Mathematical and
numerical algorithms and methods; Computer science and geoinformatics;
e-Energy, geosciences, prospection, exploration, oil and gas; Mobility
and logistic services; Geoscientific Information Systems (GIS); Remote
sensing and satellite imaging; Cartography, hydrology; Climatology and
environmental sciences; Molecular dynamics simulation; Genetic
algorithms; Physics and chemistry applications; Medicine, genetics,
epidemiology, medical geology; Multi-dimensional data visualization;
Search engines and scientific discovery; Online social networking;
Vehicular, underground and underwater networks and applications;
Scientific data processing; Computation frameworks and tools;
Mathematica, SAGE, Maple, Matlab, Scilab, Gromacs, ANSYS, Fluent, etc.);
Database applications and developme
nt; Information and database systems; Education, e-Learning, and
e-Science; ICT business evaluation and management; Legal informatics,
Open Access, Science / Copyright, Patents; Earth and planetary sciences;
Archaeology, cultural heritage; Knowledge discovery, documentation, and
classification; Data intensive computing, data science; Methdodology and
case studies regarding computing and communication scenarios; Small and
Medium Enterprises (SME) applications; Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)
applications

Evaluation context

Energy-aware and energy-efficient networks; Implementation and
experimental testbeds; Traffic measurement and traffic patterns;
Characterization of topology dynamics; Access and biometric
technologies, performance, and cost prediction; Web services and
performance; Performance measurement and benchmarking; Energy-aware and
energy-efficient High Performance Computing; Usability studies; Social
and ethic consequences with biometry and data security; Standards,
benchmarks, protocols

Biometry, security, access technologies, algorithms, and applications

Technologies and advances in biometric algorithms and interfaces (gait,
electrocardiography, iris, image, fingerprint, palm veins,
multi-modality); Biometric systems; Integration of biometrics with other
technologies; Challenge response; Simplified enrollment; NFC support,
spoofing, and countermeasures; Single sign on (SSO); Adaptive trust;
Template protection (protection of reference data); Large and scalable
biometric systems using cloud services; Deployed solutions and
applications; Experience reports and systems; Description in physical
and logical access control; information system access, immigration and
border control, law enforcement, entertainment, finance, life science,
healthcare, forensics); Distributed and mobile devices; Public Key
Infrastructures; Digital Forensics


Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComINFOCOMP14.html


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Dipl.-Inform. Bj?rn Hagemeier
Federated Systems and Data
Juelich Supercomputing Centre
Institute for Advanced Simulation

Phone: +49 2461 61 1584
Fax  : +49 2461 61 6656
Email: b.hagemeier@fz-juelich.de
Skype: bhagemeier
WWW  : http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc

JSC is the coordinator of the
John von Neumann Institute for Computing
and member of the
Gauss Centre for Supercomputing

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Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
52425 Juelich
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich
Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher
Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender),
Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt,
Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt

Wednesday 27 November 2013

Call For Papers: 4th Workshop on Systems for Future Multicore Architectures

Call For Papers: 4th Workshop on Systems for Future Multicore Architectures

SFMA 2014 (http://sfma14.cs.washington.edu)

Overview

Future multi-core architectures will present a variety of challenges
for system developers, such as non-cache-coherent memory,
heterogeneous processing cores and the exploitation of novel
architectural features. SFMA ?14 is a forum for researchers in the
operating systems, language runtime and virtual machine communities
to present and discuss their experiences with the new generation of
highly-parallel hardware.

SFMA '14 is co-located with EuroSys '14 and takes place April 13,
2014 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Call for Papers

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work that
exposes a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on
actual experience. Papers should be submitted using the standard
two-column ACM SIG proceedings or SIG alternate template, and are
limited to 6 pages (including figures, tables and references).

Final papers will be made available to participants electronically
at the meeting, but to facilitate resubmission to more formal
venues, no archival proceedings will be published, and papers will
not be sent to the ACM Digital Library. Authors will be given the
option of having their final paper accessible from the workshop
website.

Submission site: http://sfma14.cs.washington.edu

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* novel multi-core operating system designs,
* runtime systems and programming environments for future hardware,
* OS or runtime support for heterogeneous processing cores,
* scheduling on many-core architectures,
* energy efficiency, fault tolerance and resource management on
future multi-core architectures,
* performance evaluation of potential future hardware,
* architectural support for systems-level software, and
* case studies of system-level software design for current or future
multi-core hardware.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: Monday, February 3, 2014, 11:59pm PT
Acceptance Notification: Monday, February 24, 2014
Final versions due: Friday, March 28, 2014, 11:59pm PT
Workshop date: Sunday, April 13, 2014

Program Co-Chairs

Simon Peter (University of Washington)
Chris Rossbach (Microsoft Research)

Program Committee

Mahesh Balakrishnan (Microsoft Research)
Willem de Bruijn (Google)
Allen Clement (MPI-SWS)
Joseph Devietti (University of Pennsylvania)
Steve Gribble (University of Washington)
Wyatt Lloyd (Princeton University)
Derek Murray (Microsoft Research)
Donald Porter (Stony Brook University)
Jan Sacha (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
Michael Swift (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Euro-Par 2014

Euro-Par 2014
Porto, Portugal
August 25-29, 2014
http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt
Submission Deadlines

*Abstracts:* January 30, 2014, 23:59 AOE
*Full papers:* February 6, 2014, 23:59 AOE
Scope of the Conference

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the
promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed
computing. It covers a wide spectrum of topics from algorithms and theory
to software technology and hardware-related issues, with application areas
ranging from scientific to mobile and cloud computing. The objective of
Euro-Par is to provide a forum for the introduction, presentation and
discussion of the latest scientific and technical advances, extending the
frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. The
following topics will be covered by regular Euro-Par 2014 sessions:


   1. Support Tools and
Environments<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic1>
   2. Performance Prediction and
Evaluation<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic2>
   3. Scheduling and Load
Balancing<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic3>
   4. High Performance Architectures and
Compilers<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic4>
   5. Parallel and Distributed Data
Management<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic5>
   6. Grid, Cluster and Cloud
Computing<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic6>
   7. Green High Performance
Computing<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic7>
   8. Distributed Systems and
Algorithms<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic8>
   9. Parallel and Distributed
Programming<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic9>
   10. Parallel Numerical
Algorithms<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic10>
   11. Multicore and Manycore
Programming<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic11>
   12. Theory and Algorithms for Parallel
Computation<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic12>
   13. High Performance Networks and
Communication<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic13>
   14. High Performance and Scientific
Applications<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic14>
   15. GPU and Accelerator
Computing<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic15>

Full details on the topics, including topic descriptions and chairs, will
be available on the Euro-Par 2014 Web site. To access them please follow
the links above. The conference will feature contributed and invited talks.
Co-located workshops are also planned.
Paper Submission Guidelines

Full papers should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style. Paper
submission has to be performed electronically via the conference Web site
in PDF format. Papers accepted for publication must also be supplied in
source form (LaTeX).

The 12 pages limit is a hard limit. It includes everything (text, figures,
references) and will be strictly enforced by the submission system.

Download LNCS Latex style
here<ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip>.


Papers must offer original contributions regarding the theory and practice
of parallel and distributed computing. Full submission guidelines are
available on the conference website. Only contributions not submitted
elsewhere for publication will be considered.

Authors must submit their papers to the specific topic they judge most
appropriate. Details on the topics, including descriptions and chairs, are
available on the conference Web site. All accepted papers will be included
in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the ARCoSS/LNCS
series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer
copyright form.
Important Dates

*Abstracts due:* January 30, 2014
*Full papers due:* February 6, 2014
*Workshop proposal due:* February 27, 2014
*Author notification:* May 8, 2014
*Camera-ready full papers due:* June 2, 2014
*Conference:* August 25-29, 2014
Location

The Euro-Par 2014 conference will take place in Porto, Portugal, from
August 25-29, 2014. The conference is jointly organized by the
CRACS/INESC-TEC (Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems) and by
the Computer Science Departement of the Faculty of Sciences of the
University of Porto.
Conference Co-Chairs

Fernando Silva, University of Porto
In?s Dutra, University of Porto
V?tor Santos Costa, University of Porto

Sunday 24 November 2013

CFP: BPOE 2014 (co-located with ASPLOS 2014) (jiazhen) Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware (BPOE4)

Fourth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware (BPOE4)
Call for Papers (co-located with ASPLOS 2014 ? Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)

**** Important Dates ****

Abstract submission deadline, December 31, 2013
Submission Deadline: January 7, 2014 (11:59pm PST)
Author Notification: January 25, 2014
Final Copy Due: February 17, 2014
Workshop: Saturday, March 1, 2014
Workshop home page: http://prof.ict.ac.cn/bpoe_4_asplos
Submission Web page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpoe4


Big data has emerged as a strategic property of nations and organizations. There are driving needs to generate values from big data. However, the sheer volume
of big data requires significant storage capacity, transmission bandwidth, computations, and power consumption. It is expected that systems with unprecedented
scales can resolve the problems caused by varieties of big data with daunting volumes. Nevertheless, it is very difficult for big data owners to make choice
on which system is most suited for their specific requirements. They also face challenges on how to optimize the systems and their solutions. Meanwhile, system
researchers are working on new hardware architecture, operating systems, programming systems, and data management systems to improve performance in dealing with
big data.

This workshop, the fourth in its series,  aims at bringing researchers and practitioners in related areas together to discuss the research issues at the intersection
of these areas, and also to draw much attention from architecture, systems, programming, and data management research communities to this new and highly promising field.

Topics

The workshop seeks papers that address hot topic issues in benchmarking, designing and optimizing big data systems. Early stage work, new ideas, unconventional
approaches are encouraged. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
> Big data workload characterization and benchmarking
> Innovative computer and memory architecture for big data
> Emerging hardware technologies in big data systems
> Innovative operating systems and programming systems for big data
> Interactions among architecture, systems and data management
> Performance analysis and optimization of big data systems
> Innovative prototypes of big data infrastructures
> Practice report of evaluating and optimizing large-scale big data systems

Papers should present original research. As big data spans many disciplines, papers should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader
community.

Submissions:

Papers must be submitted in PDF, and be no more than 6 pages in standard two-column SIGPLAN conference format including figures and tables but not including references. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than
the length.Submissions must be made through the online submission site. Final papers and presentations will be accessible from the workshop website, but to facilitate
resubmission to more formal venues, no archival proceedings will be published, and papers will not be sent to the ACM Digital Library.

Steering committee:
 Christos Kozyrakis,   Stanford
 Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland
 Dhabaleswar K Panda, Ohio State University
 Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco
 Xiaoyong Du,  Renmin University of China
 Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Program Chair:
 Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
 Chuliang Weng, Huawei

Web Chair:
 Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publicity Chairs:
 Yuqing Zhu (Data management), ICT, CAS
 Gang Lu (Operating systems), ICT, CAS
 Zhen Jia (Architecture), ICT, CAS

Program Committee

TBD