Event: Call for Papers

Subject: CFP: SUSCOM Special Issue on Resilience and/or Energy-aware techniques for High-Performance Computing (RE-HPC)
Date/Time: See Below
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-computing/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-resilience-andor-energy-aware-techniques-fo

SCOPE:

Resilience and energy consumption have become two important concerns for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. With the increasing core count and technology miniaturization, today's large computing platforms (datacenters, clusters, supercomputers, etc.) are increasingly prone to failures. Faults are becoming norm rather than exception. Besides the classical fail-stop errors (such as hardware failures), soft errors (such as SDCs for silent data corruptions) constitute another threat that can no longer be ignored by the HPC community. Another concern is energy. Presently, large computing centers are among the largest consumers of energy, hence measures must be taken to reduce energy consumption. Energy is needed not only to power the individual cores but also to provide cooling for the system. In today's datacenters, a large proportion of energy is spent on cooling and thermal-related activities. It is anticipated that the power dissipated to perform communications and I/O transfers will also make up a much larger share of the overall power consumption. The relative cost of communication is expected to increase dramatically, both in terms of latency/overhead and of consumed energy. Re-designing algorithms for HPC systems to ensure resilience and to reduce energy consumption will be crucial to achieving sustained performance. The link between resilience and energy must also be carefully tackled. Better resilience often requires redundancy (replication and/or checkpointing, rollback and recovery), which consumes extra energy. Hot cores may lead to less resilient computing or increase the probability of individual failures. On the other hand, reducing the energy consumption via voltage/frequency scaling techniques will increase the application running time, and hence the expected number of failures during execution.

This Special Issue will encompass a broad range of topics related to resilience and energy efficiency for HPC. Its objective is to facilitate exchange of valuable information and ideas among researchers and practitioners. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Fault-tolerant algorithms, tools, and protocols
• Checkpointing, replication, and recovery techniques
• Detection and prediction of soft errors and SDCs
• System reliability, testing, and verification
• Resilience models, algorithms, and simulations
• Energy-efficient scheduling and resource management
• Power-aware runtime systems
• Energy-efficient I/O, storage, and networking
• Thermal behavior modeling, control and management
• Cooling-aware optimizations and evaluations
• Tradeoffs between performance, reliability, energy and temperature
  

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

General information for submitting papers to SUSCOM can be found at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-computing(please note the “Guide for Authors” link).  Submissions to this Special Issue (SI) should be made using Elsevier's editorial system at the journal website (under the “submit your paper” link).  Please make sure to select the “SI: RE-HPC” option for the type of the paper during the submission process.  All submissions must be original and may not be under review. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to include major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new conceptual material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper such earlier articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed using the normal standards of SUSCOM.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Manuscript due date: May 1, 2017
• First decision notification: August 1, 2017
• Tentative publication schedule: December- 2017

GUEST EDITORS:

• Anne Benoit, ENS-Lyon, France
• Jean-Marc Pierson, University of Toulouse, France
• Hongyang Sun, Vanderbilt University, USA
  

Any question may be sent to hongyang.sun@vanderbilt.edu

Event: Call for Papers

Subject:Deadline Extension: SUSCOM Special Issue on RE-HPC - Paper due on May 15
Date/Time: See Below
Website:  https://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-computing/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-resilience-andor-energy-aware-techniques-fo

Scope:

Resilience and energy consumption have become two important concerns for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. With the increasing core count and technology miniaturization, today's large computing platforms (datacenters, clusters, supercomputers, etc.) are
increasingly prone to failures. Faults are becoming norm rather than exception. Besides the classical fail-stop errors (such as hardware
failures), soft errors (such as SDCs for silent data corruptions) constitute another threat that can no longer be ignored by the HPC
community. Another concern is energy. Presently, large computing centers are among the largest consumers of energy, hence measures must be taken to reduce energy consumption. Energy is needed not only to power the individual cores but also to provide cooling for the system. In today's datacenters, a large proportion of energy is spent on cooling and thermal-related activities. It is anticipated that the
power dissipated to perform communications and I/O transfers will also make up a much larger share of the overall power consumption. The
relative cost of communication is expected to increase dramatically, both in terms of latency/overhead and of consumed energy. Re-designing algorithms for HPC systems to ensure resilience and to reduce energy consumption will be crucial to achieving sustained performance. The link between resilience and energy must also be carefully tackled. Better resilience often requires redundancy (replication and/or checkpointing, rollback and recovery), which consumes extra energy. Hot cores may lead to less resilient computing or increase the probability of individual failures. On the other hand, reducing the energy consumption via voltage/frequency scaling techniques will increase the application running time, and hence the expected number of failures during execution.

This Special Issue will encompass a broad range of topics related to resilience and energy efficiency for HPC. Its objective is to facilitate exchange of valuable information and ideas among researchers and practitioners. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Fault-tolerant algorithms, tools, and protocols
• Checkpointing, replication, and recovery techniques
• Detection and prediction of soft errors and SDCs
• System reliability, testing, and verification
• Resilience models, algorithms, and simulations
• Energy-efficient scheduling and resource management
• Power-aware runtime systems
• Energy-efficient I/O, storage, and networking
• Thermal behavior modeling, control and management
• Cooling-aware optimizations and evaluations
• Tradeoffs between performance, reliability, energy and temperature

Submission Details:

General information for submitting papers to SUSCOM can be found at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-computing (please note the “Guide for Authors” link).  Submissions to this Special Issue (SI) should be made using Elsevier's editorial system at the journal website (under the “submit your paper” link).  Please make sure to select the “SI: RE-HPC” option for the type of the paper during the
submission process.  All submissions must be original and may not be under review. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to include major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new conceptual material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper such earlier articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed using the normal standards of SUSCOM.


Important Dates:

• Manuscript due date: May 15, 2017
• First decision notification: August 1, 2017
• Tentative publication schedule: December- 2017

Guest Editors:

• Anne Benoit, ENS-Lyon, France
• Jean-Marc Pierson, University of Toulouse, France
• Hongyang Sun, Vanderbilt University, USA

Event: Call for Papers

Subject: 6th D-A-CH+ Conference on Energy Informatics (EI 2017)
Date/Time: See Below
Website: http://www.energieinformatik2017.org/call-for-papers/

Scope:

Europe has put forward ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to increase energy efficiency, and to raise the share of renewable energies. Energy Informatics is developing IT-based solutions necessary to achieve these targets.

The objective of the D-A-CH+ conference series on Energy Informatics is to promote the research, development, and implementation of information and communication technologies in the energy domain and to foster the exchange between academia, industry, and service providers in the German-Austrian-Swiss region and its neighboring countries (D-A-CH+).

We seek high-quality, original papers on smart energy systems and energy-efficient computing and communication. Submissions describing theoretical contributions as well as system design, implementation, and experimentation are welcome. The list of topics of interest to the conference, includes, but is not limited to:

• Energy networks, micro-grids, and distributed generation management.
• Energy-efficient mobility, charge management for electric vehicles, energy-aware traffic control, and smart grid integration of mobile storage.
• Smart buildings, digital metering, occupant comfort, and user interaction.
• Protocols and architectures for green data centers.
• Data analytics for smart energy systems and platforms for data analysis.
• Information systems for behavior change, market mechanisms, and business cases.

Cross-cutting issues including: security and privacy protection, interoperability, verification of networked smart grid systems, and more.

Submission and Publication

Submitted papers will be reviewed in a double-blind process. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the Springer Journal Springer journal on Computer Science — Research and Development (CSRD). Selected authors will be invited to submit an adapted version of their work to Informatik-Spektrum. The conference language will be English and papers should be written in English. We solicit full research papers (max. 10 pages content + 2 pages references) and research-in-progress papers (max. 6 pages content + 2 pages references).

Important Dates:

Submissions: May 22, 2017 (EXTENDED!)
Notifications: July 31, 2017
Camera-ready papers due: August 21, 2017
Early registration deadline: August 21, 2017

Detailed instruction for authors are available here

Call for Papers

Event: Workshop on Power and Energy Aspects of Computations (PEAC)
           held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics - PPAM 2017 
Date/Time: September 10-13, 2017
Location: Lublin, Poland
Note: See below for detailed information
Website: http://ppam.pl
Website: http://ppam.pl/docs/workshops/Call_for_Papers_Energy.pdf

Scope

Power and energy consumption have become and important issue for designing, development and maintenance of computing systems.
The fast increase of a number of data centers along with growing importance of computing, both clouds and HPC, in everyone's life makes it a major research, business and societal problem nowadays.
In particular, power and energy aspects form major constraints that advanced computing community must face to progress towards building exascale systems.

For these reasons, power and energy consumption have become the driving metrics for the design of computing hardware including multicore CPUs and accelerators, over the past years.
Power-conscious designs also dominate large supercomputing installations as well as large industrial complexes devoted to cloud computing and big data analytics. However, the advances in hardware efficiency must be followed by appropriate energy- conscious algorithms, application to hardware mapping and management techniques. With serious financial and environmental consequences, large scale computing community has to now cope with careful re-engineering of software to fit demanding power levels and tight energy envelopes.

This workshop will present research into new ways of addressing these pressing issues of energy preservation, power consumption, and heat dissipation while attaining best possible performance levels at the scale demanded by modern scientific challenges.
We hope to provide a vibrant forum for exchanging ideas, methodologies, and insights into more sustainable computing solutions.

The PEAC workshop is intended to be a forum for exchanging ideas in the field of power and energy-efficient computing.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

• Power and energy consumption analysis, modeling, and  evaluation of modern and emerging computer architectures and systems
• Accurate and efficient power and energy monitoring techniques
• Energy-conscious algorithms and applications
• Software solutions, techniques, and paradigm for energy conservation
• Optimization techniques that directly influence power   consumption in computing, for example by using DPM/DVFS
• Power and energy consumption simulation, optimization, management, and evaluation tools
• Thermal aspects of computing including thermal management and cooling approaches
• Trade-offs between energy efficiency and other important aspects such as performance and reliability
• Position statements and surveys in the topic of power, energy, and head in large scale computing installations

Paper Submission and Publication

Two types of submissions are expected:

• Extended abstracts
• Regular papers

Extended abstract should include title, authors, abstract text and keywords. It should not exceed a single page (LNCS style). It will follow the same submission procedure as regular papers.

All rules of paper submission of the PPAM conference apply. In particular:

• Abstracts and papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Workshop topics
• Papers presented at the Workshop will be included into the conference proceedings and published after the conference by Springer in the LNCS series
• Before the Workshop, abstracts of accepted papers and accepted abstracts will be posted on the conference site
• Authors should submit abstract and papers (PDF files) using the online submission tool
   <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppam2017>
• Papers are not to exceed 10 pages (LNCS style)
• Final camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be required by November 15, 2017

Authors of extended abstracts can submit full papers for additional review after the Workshop (by September 30, 2017) and, if paper is accepted, submit a camera-ready version by November 15, 2017

The authors of the papers presented at the workshop, as well as all the interested scientists through an usual Call for Papers, will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue of an indexed scientific journal.

Dates:

Submission of of Extended Abstracts and Papers:  May 19, 2017
Notification of Acceptance:  June 16, 2017
Conference:  Sept. 10-13, 2017
Camera-Ready Papers:  Nov 15, 2017

Workshop chairs

Laurent Lefevre (INRIA), laurent.lefevre@inria.fr <laurent.lefevre@inria.fr>
Ariel Oleksiak (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center), ariel@man.poznan.pl <ariel@man.poznan.pl>