PATC Training Vi-HPS tuning workshop, 18-22 May, Grenoble, France

Call For Participation

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18th VI-HPS Tuning Workshop
18-22 May 2015
MaiMoSINE, Universite Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
http://events.prace-ri.eu/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=274 
http://www.vi-hps.org/training/tws/tw18.html  

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VI-HPS and the French PRACE Advanced Training Centre (PATC) are organizing the 18th VI-HPS Tuning Workshop, the latest in a series of workshops given by tools developers for application developers. The Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS) is an initiative to promote the development, integration and use of HPC tools: see http://www.vi-hps.org 

Participants are invited to bring their own application codes to the workshop to analyze and tune their performance with the help of experts.
The workshop will:
* Give an overview of the VI-HPS programming tools suite
* Explain the functionality and effective usage of individual tools
* Offer hands-on experience and expert assistance using the tools

Workshop Overview:
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The workshop will be held in English and run from 09:00 to not later than 18:00 each day, with breaks for lunch and refreshments.
There is no fee for participation at this PATC training event, however, participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation,

Presentations and hands-on sessions are planned on the following topics:
* MAQAO performance analysis and optimization
* Score-P instrumentation and measurement
* Scalasca automated trace analysis
* Vampir interactive trace analysis
* TAU performance system

Full programme at http://www.vi-hps.org/training/tws/tw18.html

Classroom capacity is limited, therefore priority will be given to applicants bringing parallel application codes to work on.
Participants are therefore encouraged to prepare their own MPI, OpenMP and hybrid OpenMP+MPI parallel application codes for analysis.

Contact:
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Laurence Viry, LJK-UGA, laurence.viry@imag.fr
Brian Wylie, JSC, b.wylie@fz-juelich.de
Michel Kern, MdlS michel.kern@inria.fr, patc@maisondelasimulation.fr

This workshop is just one of many courses offered by the PRACE Advanced Training Centres based in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.
Information on further workshops and training events
- by Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS):
http://ww.vi-hps.org/training 
- by PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs):
http://events.prace-ri.eu/categoryDisplay.py?categId=2 
- by Maison de la Simulation
http://www.maisondelasimulation.fr/Phocea/Page/index.php?id=71 

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Michel Kern

INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt,      Maison de la Simulation

Rocquencourt B.P. 105,            Digiteo Labs, bât 565, CEA Saclay 

78153 Le Chesnay                    91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex 

tel. : +33 (0)1 39 63 58 41,        tel. : +33 (0)1 69 08 58 32            

EuroMPI 2015 Call for Papers

 *  EuroMPI 2015 Call for Papers               *
  *  The 22nd European MPI Users' Group Meeting *
  *     Bordeaux, France                        *
  *     21st - 24th September, 2015             *
  *  https://eurompi2015.bordeaux.inria.fr      *
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  * in-cooperation status with ACM and SIGHPC   *
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BACKGROUND AND TOPICS
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EuroMPI is the preeminent meeting for users, developers and
researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications
of message-passing parallel computing, in particular in and related to
the Message Passing Interface (MPI). The annual meeting has a long,
rich tradition, and has been held in European countries. Following
a 21st edition that took place in Japan, the 22nd meeting edition
shall be back on European soil, in Bordeaux, France.

EuroMPI 2015 will continue to focus on not just MPI, but also extensions
or alternative interfaces for high-performance homogeneous/heterogeneous
/hybrid systems, benchmarks, tools, parallel I/O, fault tolerance, and
parallel applications using MPI and other interfaces. Through the presentation
of contributed papers, poster presentations and invited talks, attendees
will have the opportunity to share ideas and experiences to contribute to
the improvement and furthering of message-passing and related parallel
programming paradigms. In addition to the main conference's technical
program, one-day or half-day workshops will be held. The Call for
Workshops is announced separately and also shown in the conference page.

Topics of interest for the meeting include, but are not limited to:
- MPI implementation issues and improvements towards exascale computing,
  such as manycores, GPGPU, and heterogeneous architectures.
- Extensions to and shortcomings of MPI.
- Hybrid and heterogeneous programming with MPI and other interfaces.
- Interaction between message-passing software and hardware, in particular new high performance architectures.
- MPI support for data-intensive parallel applications.
- New MPI-IO mechanisms and I/O stack optimizations.
- Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems.
- Performance evaluation for MPI and MPI based applications.
- Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations.
- Verification of message passing applications and protocols.
- Applications using message-passing, in particular in Computational Science and Scientific Computing.
- Parallel algorithms in the message-passing paradigm.
- New programming paradigms implemented over MPI, like hierarchical programming and global address spaces
- MPI parallel programming in clouds
- MPI applications performance on clouds


IMPORTANT DATES
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- Workshop proposals due: April 10th, 2015
- Workshop notification: April 30th, 2015
- Submission of full papers and poster abstracts: May 4th, 2015
- Author notification: June 12th, 2015
- Camera Ready papers due: June 29th, 2015
- Tutorials: September 21st, 2015
- Conference: September 22nd-24th, 2015

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Contributors are invited to submit a full paper as a PDF document not
exceeding 10 pages in English. The title page should contain an
abstract of at most 200 words and five specific, topical keywords. The
paper must be formatted according to double-column ACM ICPS
proceedings style. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the
contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is
strongly recommended. Style files can be found at
http://www.acm.org/publications/icps-instructions/.

New work that is not yet mature for a full paper are invited for the
poster session. Contributions to the poster session should be
submitted in the form of a two page abstract.

All contributions will be fully peer reviewed by the program
committee. For submission, see
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurompi2015.

SPECIAL ISSUE
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The best papers of the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a
special issue of International Journal of High Performance Computing
Applications (IJHPCA).

COMMITTEE
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General chair:
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee

Program co-chairs:
Alexandre Denis, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest
Brice Goglin, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest
Emmanuel Jeannot, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest
Guillaume Mercier, Bordeaux INP

Program Committee:
Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University
Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna
George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories
Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Yiannis Cotronis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Anthony Danalis, University of Tennessee
Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Alexandre Denis, Inria Bordeaux Sud Ouest
David E. Singh, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston
Javier Garcia Blas, Carlos III University
Stéphane Génaud, ENSIIE-Université de Strasbourg
Balazs Gerofi, RIKEN AICS
Brice Goglin, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest
David Goodell, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah
Richard Graham, Mellanox Technologies
William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas Hérault, University of Tennessee
Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich
Atsushi Hori, RIKEN AICS
Florin Isaila, Argonne National Laboratory and University Carlos III of Madrid
Yutaka Ishikawa, RIKEN AICS
Emmanuel Jeannot, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest
Rainer Keller, HFT Stuttgart
Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory
Julian Kunkel, Universität Hamburg
Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin
Laurent Lefèvre, Inria
Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg
Ewing Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory
Guillaume Mercier, INPB
Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre
Julián Morillo, BSC
Matthias Mueller, RWTH Aachen University
Kengo Nakajima, The University of Tokyo
Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Rolf Rabenseifner, HLRS, University of Stuttgart
Rolf Riesen, IBM
Luis Miguel Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Mitsuhisa Sato, RIKEN AICS and University of Tsukuba
Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Anna Sikora, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Jeff Squyres, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu Laboratories
Frédéric Suter, CC IN2P3 / CNRS
Guillermo Taboada, Torusware and Corunna University
Masamichi Takagi, RIKEN AICS
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria
Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory
Jesper Larsson Träff, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Denis Trystram, Grenoble university
Yuichi Tsujita, RIKEN AICS
Keith Underwood, Intel
Alan Wagner, University of British Columbia
Xin Yuan, Florida State University

SC'15 Call for Posters (including ACM Student Research Competition Posters)

Call for Poster Submissions
SC15, Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX
November 15 – 20, 2015
http://sc15.supercomputing.org


Submissions Open: April 01, 2015
Poster Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015
Notification Sent: September 8, 2015

Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/
Email Contact and Questions: posters@info.supercomputing.org


SC15 is soliciting submissions for posters that display cutting-edge research and work in progress in high performance computing, storage, networking and analysis. Posters provide an excellent opportunity for short presentations and informal discussions with conference attendees.

Posters will be prominently displayed for the duration of the conference, giving presenters a chance to showcase their latest results and innovations. The presented posters will be digitally archived and made publicly available after the conference. A Best Poster Award will be presented based on quality of research work and quality of poster presentation.

ACM Student Research Competition (SRC): SC15 will also host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). This competition will feature posters from undergraduate and graduate students showcasing original student research. An SRC poster may be authored by exactly one graduate student or up to 2 undergraduate students (optionally with the advisor). Student authors must be active ACM members. The ACM SRC pre-selection will happen during the poster reception and selected poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work in short talks on Wednesday. The ACM SRC committee will select a set of winners based on their poster content and presentation style. ACM’s SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to the SRC.

Embedded Multimedia Content: This year, we are encouraging authors to explore the integration of remotely hosted multimedia elements accessible through embedded QR codes into the poster. The goal of the embedded multimedia elements should be to enhance the presentation of research in the poster. Such elements may include a video narration of the poster by the author, links to results, movies, graphics, datasets, codes, etc. Note that extended versions of the poster or related publications will not be considered as acceptable multimedia elements in this context. The elements will be expected to be accessible using QR readers on smart phones and tablets (such as the reader included in the SC mobile app) during the conference while the poster is displayed. While the use of multimedia is not mandatory, creative multimedia integrations will be considered while evaluating posters for the Best Poster Award. Note that the conference will not provide services or infrastructure for hosting the embedded content.

SUBMISSIONS
As in past years, SC15 is soliciting two different types of posters: (1) Regular Posters and (2) ACM Student Research Competition Posters. Submissions for either type of poster must include:
(1) A 150 word abstract,
(2) A draft of the poster, and
(3) An up to 800 word extended abstract/summary (including references) in the SC15 technical paper format.
There are separate submission forms for the two different types of posters. A poster may only be submitted as one type. Posters are expected to be a single page of A0 paper size in portrait mode (841 ? 1189mm/33.1 x 46.8 in).

All posters can be submitted in up to two of the following categories: Algorithms; Applications; Architectures and Networks; Clouds and Distributed Computing; Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage; Performance; Programming Systems; State-of-the-Practice; System Software; and Education.

For submission details, see the sample submission forms at the login page of the submission website: https://submissions.supercomputing.org.


SC15 Posters Chair
Manish Parashar (Rutgers University)

SC15 Posters Vice Co-Chairs
Dorian Arnold (University of New Mexico)
Michela Becchi (University of Missouri - Columbia)

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Manish Parashar                                                 Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 628
RDI2/CAC/Dept. of Computer Science                      Phone: (848) 445-5388
Rutgers University                                                      Fax:     (732) 445-0537
110 Frelinghuysen Road                                          Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019                                       WWW: http://parashar.rutgers.edu

Research Papers for ISC Cloud & Big Data Conference

CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

The data produced by experiments, sensor networks, simulations, or
business operations with state-of-the-art technology in science and
industry is tremendous. At the same time, service-oriented organizations
are replacing static infrastructure when it comes to IT provisioning and
usage. Both trends pose significant challenges for scientific and
technological progress.

The Research Paper Sessions of the conference provide first-class open
forums for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government
to present and discuss issues, trends, and results to shape the future of
cloud computing and big data.

The Research Paper Sessions will be held on Tuesday, September 29 and on
Wednesday, September 30, 2015.

We encourage the submission of high-quality papers reporting original work
in theoretical, experimental, and industrial research and development in
the following areas:

Cloud Computing
•Novelties in cloud infrastructures, architectures, and models
•Cloud reliability
•Private and public clouds
•Federation of infrastructures, interoperability techniques in
heterogeneous cloud environments
•Security and privacy in the cloud
•Cloud management
•HPC in the cloud
•Big data in the cloud
•Novel cloud programming models
•Cloud applications and services (SaaS)

Big Data
•Algorithms, models, and systems
•Big data architectures and infrastructure
•Data quality and integration
•Data management and data life cycle
•Data mining, information retrieval, and knowledge extraction
•Security and privacy for big data
•Big data analytics (visual, text, statistical, but also threat detection)
•Social media and mobile communication
•Big data and smart data applications in science and industry
•Future trends

Important Dates

- Abstract Submission Deadline Tuesday, May 5, 2015, 11:59 pm AoE
- Full Submission Deadline Tuesday, May 12, 2015, 11:59 pm AoE
- Author Notification Monday, June 22, 2015
- Camera-Ready Submission Wednesday, July 8, 2015
- Research Paper Sessions Tuesday, September 29 – Wednesday, September 30

Submission
•Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference
system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isccloudbigdata2015p
•Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 12 pages.
•We only accept paper submissions which are formatted correctly in LNCS
style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word
template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer’s
website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process.
•Research papers will be peer-reviewed by the Research Paper Committee.
Papers will be evaluated by three reviewers based on their novelty,
fundamental insights and potential for long-term contribution.
•By submitting a paper, you agree to present the paper at ISC Cloud & Big
Data 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany. Presenters need to be registered
participants.

Proceedings

All accepted papers will be published in the Springer’s Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0 (the publication
is free of charge to paper authors regardless of the number of pages) and
will also be available as hardcopies during the conference. A PDF version
of the slides of each paper presentation will also be made available
electronically to all conference attendees a few of days after the event.

DSD 2015 - Deadline extension

18th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design

Funchal, Madeira, Portugal - August 26-28, 2015

Call for Papers (new deadline)

Conference webpage:http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~dsd-seaa-2015/dsd2015/

SCOPE

The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) addresses all aspects of (embedded, pervasive and high-performance) digital and mixed HW/SW system engineering, covering the whole design trajectory from specification down to micro-architectures, digital circuits and VLSI implementations. It is a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry working on advanced investigations, developments and applications.

It focuses on today’s and future challenges of advanced system architectures for embedded and high-performance SH/SW systems, application analysis and parallelization, design automation for all design levels, as well as, on modern implementation technologies from full custom in nanometer technology nodes, through FPGAs, to multi-core infrastructures. It covers a multitude of highly relevant design aspects from system, hardware and embedded-software specification, modeling, analysis, synthesis and validation, through system adaptability, security, dependability and fault tolerance, to system energy consumption minimization and multi-objective optimization.

Authors are kindly invited to submit their work according (but not limited) to the seven main topics of the conference main track. In addition, eleven Special Sessions (with their own coordinators and subprogram committees) do also welcome contributions in specific themes of particular interest. All papers are reviewed following guidelines, quality requirements and thresholds that are common to all committees.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submission: April 12, 2015

Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2015

Camera ready papers: June 29, 2015

First International Workshop on Representative Applications (WRAp 2015)

First International Workshop on Representative Applications (WRAp 2015)
                    http://wrap-workshop.github.io/

            to be held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2015
                http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ieeecluster2015/

               Paper submission deadline: 11th May 2015
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The First International Workshop on Representative Applications is
concerned with the development and use of representative applications
(mini-applications or proxies) for all aspects of high-performance
computing.

The challenges posed by future systems: new architectures, programming
models, and machine scales; mean that representative applications as an
essential tool in the path towards exascale. These applications can be
used for acceptance testing, benchmarking, optimization evaluation, and
also investigating the performance of new architectures or programming
models. However, the development of such representative applications
must ensure they maintain some correspondence with their parent
application, so requires methods and tools for identifying the
performance critical aspects of a given code, or class of codes, and
also for verifying that the proxy effectively models the the target
behavior.

The main aim of WRAp is to provide a venue in which the wide range of
disciplines involved in creating and using representative applications
can share important discoveries and lessons learned from these
applications.

Topics of Interest:
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- Programming model and language explorations
- Design and generation of representative applications
- New representative applications
- Verification and validation of representative applications
- Optimizations, including:
  - algorithmic improvements, and
  - code optimization
- Scalability studies
- Hardware studies
- Case-studies of representative applications impacting their parent
  code

Work which examines similar topics will also be considered for inclusion
in the workshop.

Dates:
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- Abstract submission: 4 May 2015
- Paper submission: 11 May 2015
- Author notification: 3 July 2015
- Camera-ready submission: 1 August 2015
- Conference: 8th - 11th September, 2015

Journal Special Issue:
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised manuscripts for
inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of High-Performance
Computing Applications [http://hpc.sagepub.com/].

Submission Instructions:
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Authors are invited to submit full papers with unpublished, original work of
not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced fonts on
pages of 8.5 x 11 inches (this limit includes all figures, content etc but
does not include references, extra pages may be purchased for the camera ready,
see website for rates). All papers should be formatted to use the IEEE
conference proceedings template and guidelines available here:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

All accepted papers (subject to post-review revisions) will be published in
the IEEE CLUSTER Conference Proceedings.

Papers should be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrap2015


Chairs:
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- Tom Scogland, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- David Beckingsale, University of Warwick

Steering Committee:
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- Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Program Committee:
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-  Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
-  Robert Bird, University of Warwick
-  Shuai Che, AMD
-  Mayank Daga, AMD
-  Wayne Gaudin, AWE
-  Si Hammond, Sandia National Lab
-  Andy Herdman, AWE
-  Mike Heroux, Sandia National Lab
-  Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft
-  Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick
-  Christoph Junghans, Los Alamos National Laboratory
-  Kalyan Kumaran, Argonne National Lab
-  Seyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
-  Paul Lin, Sandia
-  John Pennycook, Intel
-  Bob Robey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
-  Hao Wang, Virginia Tech
-  Louis Vernon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Any questions? Please contact us at: wrap-organizers@lists.llnl.gov
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