Upcoming Events

 

July 2019

 

Event: Call for Papers (Springer Nature Computing Science)

Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2019

Website: https://www.springer.com/computer/journal/42979

 

Dear Colleague,

 

We are pleased to inform you that we will be publishing a special issue on the "Software Challenges to Exascale  Computing" in the Springer Nature Computer Science journal and would like to invite you to submit  manuscripts to this issue.

 

The manuscripts can be based on any topic related to the area of "Software Challenges to Exascale Computing".

 

Some of the topics of interest are:

• Tools and techniques for code modernization

• Generative programming techniques in HPC

• Supporting software and middleware for HPC environments: e.g., MPI libraries
• Tools for profiling, debugging, and parallelizing applications
• Tools and techniques for memory and power optimization
• Large-scale HPC applications (tuning, optimization, and implementation on HPC resources)
• HPC Science Gateways, Containerization (HPC in the Cloud)
• Fault-tolerance
• File systems and Parallel I/O
• High-level interfaces, libraries, compilers, and runtime systems for parallel programming
• Domain-Specific Languages in HPC
• Best practices for HPC software development
• Challenges and opportunities related to the workforce development in the area of software engineering for HPC

 

All the submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed for originality, relevance, and potential of impact on the field of software for advanced computing. The manuscripts should be prepared as per the "Instructions for Authors" provided at the following URL: https://www.springer.com/computer/journal/42979

 

The submission system can be accessed from the following URL: https://www.editorialmanager.com/sncs/default.aspx. The authors would need to select the title of the issue at the time of submission and the papers will automatically come to us for evaluation.

 

Timeline for publication:

 

• Submission system closes: July 1, 2019
• 1st round review deadline: August 15, 2019
• Final round review deadline: September 15, 2019
• Publication deadline: November 1, 2019

 

About Springer Nature Computer Science: Springer and Nature have joined hands to publish this peer-reviewed journal. The journal aims to be a global forum of, for, and by the community and offers rapid peer review under the expert guidance of a global  editorial board. There are no color or page charges for publishing in this journal.

 

 

Event: OPTIM'2019 - Int. Workshop on Optimization of Energy Efficient HPC & Distributed Systems

Date/Time: July 15 – July 19, 2019

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Submission Deadline: March 11th, 2019

Website: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop02-optim

 

Scope And Objectives

 

Energy efficiency optimization has gradually become one fundamental constraint and requisite in the design of High Performance Computing

(HPC) and Distributed Systems, comprehending several prominent research domains embracing the processor architectures (homogeneous/heterogeneous many-core GPPs), the processing accelerators and co-processors (e.g., APUs, GPUs, FPGAs, etc.), the distributed infrastructures (clusters, grids, data centers, etc.), the distributed platforms (application models, framework runtimes and virtual machines), and the underlying network and communication subsystem. Moreover, even in the embedded domain, saving energy in battery-supplied devices is established as a fundamental issue in mobile, hand-held and wireless applications and in most pervasive systems.

 

Accordingly, due to the often imposed thermal, power and energy constraints, an effective minimization and optimization of the energy

consumption surpasses the obvious economic impact of the energy cost, since it also directly affects other aspects of the overall infrastructure with a significant influence on its viability, including the power supply and its distribution, cooling mechanisms (cost and space overhead) and management techniques, etc.

 

These new challenges require innovative and effective solutions to attain an effective optimization and/or minimization of the power

consumption in HPC and distributed systems, including energy-efficient architectures, scheduling and mapping algorithms, load-balancing and

scalability studies, and communication protocols.

 

The goal of this workshop is to bring together active researchers who are interested in prevailing issues and prominent challenges related to

optimizing computing systems power consumption, energy efficient systems, power-aware distributed systems, and green computing.

 

The OPTIM workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

 

• Computer architecture trends for energy efficiency: Heterogeneous parallel processing architectures; ISA diversity and morphable structures; run-time reconfiguration/adaptation and dynamic scalability; CPU accelerator co-design (GPUs, APUs, FPGAs, etc.); approximate computing techniques and architectures.

 

• Energy/power management and control: Run-time power/energy monitoring and sensing; heat/power/energy models; Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and power/clock gating strategies; performance vs. power/energy scaling and management.

 

• Energy-aware large scale distributed systems: energy-efficient grids, clouds and data centers; exascale computing systems; energy-aware virtualization techniques for energy efficiency; energy-aware frameworks; virtual machines and network infrastructure management.

 

• Energy-aware communication: energy-efficient models, protocols and and network infrastructure management. routing algorithms applied in the physical (PHY), data-link (MAC), network (IP), transport (TCP/UDP) and middleware layers above; energy-efficient cross-layer protocols; energy trade offs between communication and computation; energy-efficient network services and operations.

 

• Tools and algorithms: Programing languages, compilers and models for energy-aware computing; profiling and simulation tools for heat/power/energy estimation; power- and thermal-aware scheduling, mapping and task/thread migration policies for energy efficiency; energy-aware resource management; operating system support and energy management tools.

 

• Green Computing: models, methodologies and paradigms; sustainable computing; management and balance between performance, reliability and energy consumption; standardization and benchmarking for energy-aware systems; integration with smart grids. Both theoretical papers and papers describing systems implementations and real-world practical experiences will be welcome.

 

Instructions For Paper Submittal

 

You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to optimization issues in energy

efficient high performance and distributed computing systems.  Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere.

 

Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses.  Indicate

clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words.  The

full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column format. Additional pages will be charged additional fee.  Short papers (up to 4

pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to HPCS’2019 webpage for the posters submission details) will also be accepted for submission. In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author(s) is responsible for correspondence must be indicated. Please include page numbers on all submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.

 

Submit your manuscript to the Workshop submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=optim2019

 

Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews.  Papers will be

selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, and references.  Submission implies the

willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted.  At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS’2019 conference to present the paper at the Workshop.

 

Proceedings

 

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted

on the HPCS’2019 web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time

of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in major indexing services accordingly.

 

Important Dates

 

• Abstract Submission (EasyChair): March 4, 2019
• Paper Submissions (EasyChair):   March 11, 2019
• Acceptance Notification:                April 3, 2019
• Camera Ready Papers:                April 19, 2019
• Registration Due:                          April 19, 2019
• Conference Dates:                       July 15 - 19, 2019

 

Workshop Organizers

 

• Nuno Roma, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Univ. Lisboa (Nuno.Roma@inesc-id.pt)

• Luís Veiga, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Univ. Lisboa (Luis.Veiga@inesc-id.pt)

 

 

August 2019

 

Event: Call for Papers (Energy Efficient HPC State of the Practice Workshop (EE HPC SOP 2019) )

Subject: The 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2019)

Date/Time: August 5 – August 8, 2019

Location: Kyoto, Japan

Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2019

Website: https://www.hpcs.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/icpp2019/

 

Key Dates

 

Submissions Open:  February 15, 2019

Submission Deadline:  May 15, 2019

Author Notification:  May 30, 2019

Camera Ready Paper:  June 07, 2019

All dates are Anywhere on Earth

 

Scope And Objectives

 

The facility demands for supercomputing centers (SCs) are characterized by electrical power demands for computing systems that scale to tens of megawatts (MW) and millisecond voltage fluctuations approaching 10MW for the largest systems. The demand for primary electrical distribution capabilities to current large-scale facilities can exceed 60MW, comprising multiple, redundant, and diverse medium-voltage feeders.   Despite significant pressure on both Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling, the appetite for ever-larger systems and the subsequent demand for both agile power and effective cooling for these systems continues to grow. Computing trends, in terms of highly optimized hardware platforms that may leverage accelerators or other non-traditional components, scalable and high performing applications, and the requirements to manage exponentially larger data sets are driving facility demands not envisioned just a few years ago.

 

SC facilities must consider multiple elements, including the cost to extend or fit existing primary distribution capabilities; the cost and consequence of both trapped and stranded capacity, ever-increasing heat densities for new systems that may render existing cooling mechanisms obsolete or ineffective, increased mandatory use of liquid cooling for portions of the heat load, and wet weights that exceed the carrying capacities of existing raised floor systems.

 

Additionally, the operational costs of these facilities must be balanced versus the demand from the systems owners and users for high availability, high utilization, and low-impact facility maintenance and service demands. To achieve this balance, many SCs continue to innovate their operational design practices and technologies. Solutions seek improved management of both the electrical and mechanical systems, and minimizing long-term facility costs through best practices associated with their design.

 

Some SCs are early adopters and innovators in operational practices and technologies that are geared towards improving energy and power management capabilities.  This workshop will explore these operational and technological innovations that span HPC computational systems as well as buildings and building infrastructure.

 

The purpose of this workshop is to allow for publication of practices, policies, procedures, and technologies in formal peer-reviewed papers so the broader community can benefit from these experiences.  The nature of these papers is generally descriptive with hard experiential data generally gathered through surveys, case studies and research for practice.

 

Workshop Topics of Interest Include (but are not limited to)

 

Reports on experience gained with grid integration

•  Impact of large HPC power loads and rapid voltage swings on electrical distribution systems
•  Demand response and other ‘sustainability’ programs
•  Negotiations on contracts with electricity service providers

 

Use cases, lessons learned and best practices from large-scale, production deployment of:

•  integrated operational data collection and analytics
•  Energy and power-aware job scheduling and resource management
•  Liquid cooling control systems for HPC facilities, systems or both
• Standards and open interfaces for power management and energy efficiency (e.g., Power API, Redfish, GEOPM, READEX, PowerStack)

 

Experiences from extending the L2/L3 power measurement methodology to other benchmarks (beyond HPL)

Use cases, lessons learned and best practices from:

• Energy and power considerations during procurement of HPC systems
• Liquid cooling commissioning
• HPC facility preventative maintenance and management practices for RAS-M (reliability, availability, serviceability, and maintainability)
• Energy and power considerations during facility construction or improvement that supports HPC systems
• Measuring and evaluating the value of ITUE (IT power usage effectiveness), similar to PUE but “inside” the system and TUE (total power usage effectiveness)

 

Agenda

 

9:00 Satoshi Matsuoka Keynote

9:50 Opening Remarks and Introductions

10:05 Survey Paper on Electricity Contracts

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Case Study Paper on LANL Designing 80MW Data Center

11:30 Survey Paper on Voltage Fluctuations

12:00 Case Study Paper on RIKEN Modeling Cooling

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Case Study Paper on NERSC ODA system

14:30 Case Study Paper on NERSC cooling optimization using ODA

15:00 Case Study Paper on CINECA ODA system

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Invited Talk on ORNL Controls

16:35 Invited Talk on ENI Controls

17:10 Closing Discussion

17:30 End

 

 

Paper Submission

 

Abstracts and papers to be submitted via Easy Chair - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eehpcsop2019

Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop.

Long papers should not exceed **8** pages and short papers should not exceed **4** pages in the ACM format

For reproducibility, authors are expected to provide an appendix describing the methods used to gather, test and archive the data described in the paper.  This appendix is not included in the page limit, but cannot exceed **2** pages.

 

Submissions will be judged on correctness, novel or innovative approaches to a problem, technical and/or operational strength, written quality, and interest and relevance to the workshop scope. The workshop organizers will provide written reviews for all timely submissions.  Editorial review and recommendations may be provided as well.

 

Accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of the ICPP2019 Proceedings in a companion volume for workshops.

 

 

Organizing Committee

 

• Natalie Bates, Energy Efficient HPC Working Group
• Fumiyoshi Shoji, RIKEN
• Jim Rogers, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Greg. Koenig, KPMG
• Siddhartha Jana, Intel
• Torsten Wilde, HPE

 

 

Program Committee

 

• Steve Martin, Cray Inc.
• Todd Rosedahl, IBM
• Anders Clausen, University Southern Denmark
• Grant Stewart, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Ryan Grant, Sandia National Laboratory
• Thomas Scogland, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Ladina Gilly, Swiss National Supercomputing Center
• Jason Hick, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• James H. Laros, Sandia National Laboratory
• Gert Svensson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
• Anna Maria Bailey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• David Grant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• David Martinez, Sandia National Laboratory
• Jeff Broughton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Norman Bourassa, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Herbert Huber, Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ)
• Daniel Hackenberg, Technical University of Dresden
• Ted Kubaska, Independent Technical Writer & Software Engineer
• Tapasya Patki, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Matthias Maiterth, LMU Munich and Intel
• Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Barbara Macchioni, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• John Gutman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Francis Belot, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
• François Robin, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
• Andrea Bartolini, University of Bologna
• Bilel Hadri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

 

 

September 2019

 

Event: Call for Participation - International Summer School on Architectures and Algorithms for Energy-Efficient IoT and HPC Applications

In conjunction with - 10th NiPS Summer School 2019

Date/Time: September 3rd to the 6th, 2019

Location: Perugia (Italy)

Website: https://www.nipslab.org/nips-summer-school-hpc-iot-2019

 

Early registration deadline: June 30, 2019

Final application deadline: July 31, 2019

 

International Summer School on Architectures and Algorithms for Energy-Efficient IoT and HPC Applications

 

The Summer School on “Architectures and Algorithms for Energy-Efficient IoT and HPC Applications" is a 4-day school bringing together well-known international scientists from academia, research centers and industry. The school offers the opportunity to students and young researchers to be aware of the state-of-art on the development of energy-efficient computer architecture, algorithms and their applications to the Internet of Things (IoT) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) domains.

 

The Summer School is organized by the Noise in Physical Systems Laboratory (http://www.nipslab.org<http://www.nipslab.org/>) in collaboration with the OPRECOMP project (http://oprecomp.eu<http://oprecomp.eu/>), and it is open to everybody. Previous training or experience in computer science as well as a background in computer architecture or compilation is recommended.

 

Scientific Program

 

Day 1 (Tuesday, September the 3rd)

•  Memory Systems and Memory-Centric Computing Systems: Challenges and Opportunities (Onur Mutlu – ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

•  Understanding performance numbers in HW Design (Frank K. Gürkaynak – ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

•  PULP: A Multi-Core Platform for Micropower In-Sensor Analytics (Davide Rossi, University of Bologna, Italy)

 

Day 2 (Wednesday, September the 4th)

•  Energy efficient heterogeneous design (Luca Benini – University of Bologna, Italy)

•  Approximate (Trans-Precision) Computing Without Re-Inventing the Wheel (Andreas Burg – EPFL, Switzerland)

•  Summer of Code presentations (Elevator speeches by the SoC winners – part 1)

 

Day 3 (Thursday, September the 5th)

•  Energy Efficient Inter-Chip Communication in Heterogeneous Application Domains (Vasilis Pavlidis – University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

• TBA (Andrea Calimera – Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

•  Efficient Memory Controller Architectures and their Integration in Transprecision Compute Platforms (Christian Weis – University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

• Summer of Code presentations (Elevator speeches by the SoC winners – part 2)

 

Day 4 (Friday, September the 6th)

• TBA (Dimitrios Nikolopoulos – Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom)

•  Dynamic Application Autotuning for Approximate Computing (Cristina Silvano – Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

•  Enabling Machine Learning on FPGA (Mirko Mariotti – University of Perugia, Italy)

•  Neural Network tutorial on GAP8 AI processor (Francesco Paci – GreenWaves Technologies, France)

 

Lectures will run on mornings and afternoons from 9:00 to 18:00, except on Wednesday when an excursion in the afternoon will take place followed by the social dinner.

 

Poster Session

 

During the school we will give chance to young researchers to present their work through poster sessions which will span all days of the school. The poster sessions will provide an ideal opportunity for students to present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow students, and can be the beginning of future collaboration.

 

Venue and Social Events

 

The Summer School will take place at the Hotel Giò in Perugia, in central Italy.

On September 4th at 15:45 we will have a touristic guided excursion to Assisi followed by the social dinner in a special location, with typical food and wine. Accompanying persons are welcome to the summer school. Touristic attractions and cultural events, will be running in Perugia during the summer school days and are located at walking distance from the school site.

 

Certificate

 

All participants will receive a certificate of attendance. Some universities will accept this certificate in their PhD program.

 

Admission

 

Please notice that school attendance is limited and the participation will be assessed on a first-come/first-serve basis, subjected to acceptance from the Organizing Committee.

 

Important Dates

 

June 30, 2019: deadline for early registration

July 31, 2019: deadline for late registration

 

Registration

 

The registration fee includes: 7 coffee breaks, 4 lunches and a programmed excursion with the social dinner.

Early registration (until June 30 2019): 450 €

Late registration (from July 1 2019):  600 €

 

Accompanying persons are welcome, and can choose between the following options:

Option 1: 80 € - it covers the cost of the social dinner and the excursion

Option 2: 160 € - it covers the costs of 4 lunches, the social dinner and the excursion

 

Registration Step by Step

 

1. Please compile the Registration form: https://www.nipslab.org/summer-school-2019-registration-form/ selecting the track “Architectures and Algorithms for Energy-Efficient IoT and HPC Applications”.
2. We will review your application and you will receive a confirmation of admission by e-mail with instructions for the payment of the registration fee.
3. After the payment your registration is completed and you will receive an invoice.

 

Lodging

 

The School will take place at the Hotel Giò which will offers the possibility to stay at discounted rates for the Summer School participants. The school location is however very close to the city center and easily reachable from any hotel in the city center by foot or via public service.

 

How to reach Perugia

 

By Air

The closest airport to Perugia is the San Francesco airport located at 15 min drive.

Central Italy's closest major airports are in Rome, Pisa, and Florence. These can be easily reached by train, bus or car.

The major international gateway is Rome's Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci, known as Fiumicino (FCO) (30 km/19 mi southwest of Rome).

Pisa's Aeroporto Galileo Galilei (PSA) (12 km/7 mi south of Pisa and 80 km (50 mi) west of Florence) has flights from London, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris)

Florence's Aeroporto A. Vespucci, known as Peretola (FLR) (10 km/6 mi northwest of Florence), has connections to Brussels, Paris, London, Rome, and Milan.

 

By Train

Arrival at Perugia Fontivegge Railways Station. Information on train schedule are available here: http://www.trenitalia.com/tcom-en

 

Steering Committee

 

• Igor Neri (University of Perugia, Italy)
• Frank K. Gürkaynak (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
• Cristiano Malossi (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland)
• Enrique Salvador Quintana Ortí (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
• Davide Rossi (University of Bologna, Italy)
• Dimitrios Nikolopoulos  (Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom)
• Henri-Pierre Charles (CEA, France)
• Giuseppe Tagliavini (University of Bologna, Italy)

 

Scientific Director

 

• Luca Gammaitoni, NiPS Laboratory, Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia

 

Contact information

 

NiPS Laboratory, Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia via Pascoli 1 - I-06123 - Perugia (Italy)

Email:  school@nipslab.org<

 

 

October 2019

 

Event: Call for Participation - IEEE Infrastructure Conference

Date/Time: October 16-17, 2019

Location: The Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, CA USA

Website: https://infrastructure.ieee.org/

 

Calls for Participation

 

Demonstrate your knowledge and experience with infrastructure and artificial intelligence by speaking at IEEE Infrastructure Conference to be held on 16-17 October 2019 at the Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, California, USA.

 

Infrastructure 2019 will have both traditional papers (Wednesday, half day) and presentations only (Thursday, full day).

 

Compared to traditional conferences, this event focuses on industry: it is by industry and for industry. In addition to industry, academic and government authors who focus on the following criteria are also very welcome:

 

• Practical work that resulted in lessons learned and improvement over current practice
• Innovation is desirable, but not required element, papers that cover useful experiences are welcome
• Architecture, design, implementation, and deployment are of high interest
• Processes and best practices are welcome, but some connection to deployment and practical use is desirable
• User experience and lessons learned from deployments
• Negative results are welcome as long as there is a lesson learned from it and they are non-trivial
• Toolchains, DevOps, support, etc.
• Experience with non-functional requirements (security, performance, scale, reliability)

 

Proposed topics include:

 

• Understanding the evolving role of AI to automate, address complex challenges in extreme scale

• • Traditional data center management, DevOps

• • AI/ML/DL: Model size, training, edge vs Cloud
  • Performance analysis using Deep Learning
  • Leveraging systems, services design, and operational management

• Using AI for automation of operations

• • Design space exploration
  • Service design and management using AI techniques
  • Managing failures and lessons learned using real-world scenarios and examples

• Alert and remediation
  • Test failure generation using AI techniques
  • Successes and failure stories in applying AI to Infrastructure management
• Assessing trust models in your system paradigms
  • End-to-end trust
  • Using AI for anomaly detection of threats
  • Trust at Edge

 

 

Call for Papers

 

Regular paper submissions are up to 4 (four) pages maximum (exclusive of bibliography). To be considered for publication, one of the authors is required to attend the conference to make a full presentation of the work. Final paper submissions may be up to 8 pages (exclusive of bibliography).

 

Short paper submissions are up to 2 (two) pages maximum (exclusive of bibliography). To be considered for publication, one of the authors is required to attend the conference to make a full presentation of the work. Final paper submissions may be up to 4 pages (exclusive of bibliography).

 

Formatting instructions for all papers:

 

• They must be written in English and use standard IEEE two-column conference templates that can be downloaded from
  • https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

• Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process. We will follow a double-blind review process. All paper submission PDFs must be ANONYMOUS and without author affiliations.

 

Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the IEEE Infrastructure 2019 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®

 

Important Dates for Paper Submissions

 

• Paper Abstract Submission (200 words) Due: Sunday, 30 June 2019 (11:00 pm EDT)
• Paper Submission (regular or short) Due: Monday, 15 July 2019 (11:00 pm EDT)
• Author Notification of Acceptance: Sunday, 1 September 2019
• Final Paper (PDF) due: Sunday, 1 September 2019

 

Submit Paper Here

 

Call for Speakers

 

To be considered for presentations only, the following must be included with your submission:

 

• Presentation Title
• Presentation Abstract suitable for program (200 words)

 

Important Dates for Presentation Submissions

 

• Presentation Submissions Due: Wednesday, 24 July 2019 (11:00 pm EDT)
• Speaker Notification of Acceptance: Friday, 30 August 2019
• Final Presentations Due: Friday, 11 October 2019

 

Submit Presentation Here

 

 

Event: Call for Papers The Tenth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC’19)

Subject: Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE STC on Sustainable Computing

Date/Time: October 21-24, 2019, Alexandria

Location: Alexandria, VA, USA

Website: https://www.igscc.org/https://www.igscc.org/

 

Key Dates

 

• Conference Paper submission: May 27, 2019
• Deadline for submitting Workshop and Special Session proposals: May 1, 2019
• Deadline for submitting Ph.D. forum extended abstracts: July 15, 2019
• Notifications to authors: August 15, 2019
• Camera-ready papers due: September 1, 2019

 

IGSC’19 provides a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference consists of technical papers, panels, workshops, and a PhD Forum on these topics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

• Track 1: High Performance and Cloud Computing
  • Power- and thermal-aware algorithms, software, and hardware, accelerators (including GPGPU/FPGAs), memory and storage systems, interconnection networks, optimized data management, efficient power delivery and cooling, data center organization and optimization, reliability, life-cycle analysis of IT equipment, hardware and software for large-scale data analytics and processing.

 

• Track 2: Computer Architecture
  • Power-efficient multi/many-core chip designs, architectures for machine learning and AI, approximate computing, non-turing architectures, power and thermal management, GPGPU architectures, reconfigurable architectures, memory systems, caches, networks-on-chip (NOCs).

 

• Track 3: Embedded Systems
  • Internet-of-Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks, energy harvesting, storage, and conversion, cyber-physical systems, secure embedded systems, wearable computing, computing for smart systems, interfacing sensors and actuators, real-time operating systems, scheduling and optimization.

 

• Track 4: VLSI Design
  • Low-power electronics and systems, emerging technologies, novel non-volatile memories, memory circuits, ASICs , reconfigurable computing and FPGAs, computer-aided design, thermal-aware circuits, design of sensors and actuators, analog, optical, non-digital circuits.

 

• Track 5: Computing for Sustainability
  • Computational methods for sustainable economy and society, renewable energy models and prediction, matching energy supply and demand, smart grids (macro and micro),smart transportation and electric vehicles, smart buildings and urban computing, smart manufacturing and industrial IoT, climate and ecosystem monitoring, IT solutions for water quality, air pollution, and sustainable agriculture.

 

Paper submission guidelines:

 

IGSC’19 welcomes submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by other conferences or journals. All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Please refer to the IGSC website (https://www.igscc.org/) for specific instructions related to paper submission.  Upon approval from IEEE, IGSC conference proceedings will be published by IEEE (in IEEE Xplore).

 

Best paper award and journal publication:

 

IGSC bestows a best paper award as selected by a technical committee.  In addition, a special issue based on best contributions to IGSC 2019 in SUSCOM (Sustainable Computing: Informatics and System), an Elsevier SCI-indexed journal, is under consideration.

 

Workshops:

 

Proposals are solicited for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. Proposals should be submitted to the Workshops Chair (axgeec@rit.edu).

 

Ph.D. Forum and Project Demos:

 

The forum solicits extended abstract submissions from doctoral students engaged in research on sustainable and energy-efficient computing a well as poster and project demos from all researchers, faculty, and students. Please refer to the IGSC website for submission instructions.

 

Industrial Partners:

 

The conference seeks industry partners and sponsors with opportunities for them to showcase their technologies. Please contact the steering committee chairs for additional information.

 

Organization:

 

• General Co-Chairs: Alex Jones (University of Pittsburgh, USA), akjones@pitt.edu and Massimo Poncino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), massimo.poncino@polito.it

 

• Technical Program Co-Chairs: Michele Magno (ETHZ Zurich, Switzerland), michele.magno@iis.ee.ethz.ch and Ann Gordon-Ross (University of Florida, USA), anngordonross@ufl.edu

 

• Workshops Chair: Amlan Ganguly, (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA), axgeec@rit.edu

 

• PhD Forum Chair: Mahdi Nikdast (Colorado State University, USA), Mahdi.Nikdast@colostate.edu

 

 

 

Event: Call for Papers (GREEN 2019, The Fourth International Conference on Green Communications, Computing and Technologies)

Date/Time: October 27, 2019 to October 31, 2019

Location: Nice, France

Website: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/GREEN19.html

 

From data center air-coolers to on-chip implementations, energy conservation is predominant and innovative research is ongoing to address this huge energy drain. The need to limit or recover energy consumed has an associated cost.

 

New strategies are being developed with a goal to limit the energy consumption of data centers.  However, nothing comes for free. Compared

to an ideal solution, practical Green initiatives have associated costs to overcome and researchers & industry have to between the cost and

benefits. This track examines the concepts associated with current green energy initiatives and the cost benefit analysis.

 

The main objective of this track is to explore industrial practices and research initiatives, that address the challenges in implementing green

initiatives in the field of computing, storage, network and cooling technologies in data centers, such as (i) air cooling initiatives, (ii) managing compute servers, (iii) energy oriented storage solutions, (iv) networking techniques and (v) related economic and reliability studies (iv) industry studies related to Green technologies.

 

Topics include, but not limited to:

• Green initiatives in data center Energy management & architectures

• Compute, Storage & Networking Applications and test results

• Quality of Service issues in Green computing

• New business and economic models

• Cross-layer cost benefit optimization

 

Important Datelines

Inform the Chair: As soon as you decide to contribute (http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/filesGREEN19/CGI_DC.pdf)

Submission: August 31

Notification: September 20

Registration: September 30

Camera-ready: September 30

 

Contribution Types

• Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

• Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

• Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

• Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on http://www.iaria.org]

• Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on http://www.iaria.org]

• Demos: two pages [posted on http://www.iaria.org]

 

Paper Format

• See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html [both LaTex and .doc templates]

• Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

• More information on camera ready preparations will be posted after the paper notifications are sent out.

 

Publications

• 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

 

Paper Submission

http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/filesGREEN19/CGI_DC.pdf

Please select Track Preference as GDI-DC

 

Registration

• Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings.

• Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html

 

Contacts

Sanjeev Sondur: sanjeev.sondur@temple.edu

GREEN Logistics: steve@iaria.org