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  HUCAA'14 CFP: Workshop on Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications Holger Fröning <froening@uni-hd.de> - 2013-12-14 11:20 +0100
    Call for Papers: First Workshop on Managing Overprovisioned Systems "Carter, Nicholas P" <nicholas.p.carter@intel.com> - 2013-12-30 23:54 +0000

#720 — HUCAA'14 CFP: Workshop on Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

              3nd International Workshop on Heterogeneous
       and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications
                              (HUCAA 2014)
                http://www.hucaa-workshop.org/hucaa2014

                  Sept. 9-12, 2014 - Minneapolis, MN, US
                   In conjunction with the ICPP 2014
  The 43nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP2014)
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The workshop on Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures
and Applications gears to gather recent work on heterogeneous and
unconventional cluster architectures and applications, which might have
a big impact on future cluster architectures. This includes any cluster
architecture that is not based on the usual commodity components and
therefore makes use of some special hard- or software elements, or that
is used for very special and unconventional applications. In particular
we call for GPUs and other accelerators (Intel MIC/Xeon Phi, FPGA) used
at cluster level. Other examples include virtualization, in-memory
storage, hard- and software interactions, run-times, databases, and
device-to-device communication. We are in particular encouraging work
on disruptive approaches, which may show inferior performance today but
can already point out their  performance potential. The broad scope of
the workshop facilitates submissions on unconventional uses of hardware
or software, gearing to gather ideas that are coming to life now and
not limiting them except for their context: clusters. Also, these
proposals may rather be reflective of a broader industry trend

We are seeking new proposals presented from a holistic perspective. In
this regard, one of the aims of the workshop is anticipating the
evolution of clusters. Instead of just presenting new work carried out
in the traditional cluster areas usually addressed in other conferences
and workshops, we are thinking on creating the right atmosphere for a
discussion of opportunities in cluster computing. In this regard,
contributions would not only be accepted according to their technical
merits but also according to their contribution to this discussion.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include any heterogeneous or unconventional cluster
architecture or application. Examples include, but are not limited to:

- Clustered GPUs, Xeon Phis or other accelerators
- Runtimes, resource management and scheduling for heterogeneous
   clusters
- Communication methods for distributed or clustered accelerators
- Energy-aware data movement techniques
- New industry and technology trends and their potential impact
- High-performance, data-intensive, and power-aware computing
- Application-specific cluster and datacenter architectures
- Emerging programming paradigms for parallel heterogeneous computing
- Software cluster-level virtualization for consolidation purposes
- Hardware techniques for resource aggregation
- Management layers for large-scale systems
- New uses of GPUs, FPGAs, and other specialized hardware


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: April 7th, 2014
Notification of acceptance: June 6th, 2014
Camera-ready paper: June 15th, 2014
Workshop: Sept. 9-12, 2014 (final day TBD)


PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions may not exceed 8 pages (two column, single spaced, 10pt
font, 81⁄2×11-inch pages) in PDF format including figures and
references. We recommend a minimum of 6 pages. Submitted papers must be
original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration
for another conference or journal. Work in progress is welcome, but
first results should be made available as a proof of concept.
Submissions only consisting of a proposal will be rejected. Please visit
the workshop website for additional details.


ORGANIZATION

CO-CHAIRS
- Holger Fröning, U. Heidelberg
- Federico Silla, U. Politécnica Valencia

STEERING COMMITTEE
- José Duato, U. Politécnica Valencia
- Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Georgia Tech
- Ulrich Brüning, U. Heidelberg

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
TBA


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.hucaa-workshop.org/hucaa2014

or send email to:
froening{at}uni-hd.de
fsilla{at}disca.upv.es

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#743 — Call for Papers: First Workshop on Managing Overprovisioned Systems

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                               Call for Papers

           First Workshop on Managing Overprovisioned Systems (W-MOS)
                                March 1, 2014
            In conjunction with the 2014 International Conference on
              Architectural Support for Programming Languages and 
                          Operating Systems (ASPLOS)
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Computer systems are at an inflection point where power budgets are
becoming more of a limiting factor on designers than the number of
transistors that can be fabricated on a chip. Transistor density
continues to grow at geometric rates, but power budgets prevent
systems from using all of their transistors simultaneously. As a
result, architects have begun to propose overprovisioned designs that
contain more hardware than they can utilize simultaneously, including
architectures that incorporate fixed-function accelerators, single-
and multi-ISA heterogeneous architectures, and “melt the chip”
architectures in which each subsystem (cores, memory, and network) can
consume the vast majority of the system’s power budget when that
subsystem is the bottleneck on application performance.

A common theme among all of these overprovisioned designs is that they
transform computer architectures from static designs into dynamic
systems that must be continually monitored, reconfigured, and managed
in order to deliver maximum performance without exceeding their power
budgets. Since the system cannot use all of its hardware
simultaneously, some agent (hardware, software, or a combination
thereof) must determine which hardware should be used at any given
time, depending on the application or applications being run. This
will require information from multiple layers of the system stack,
including architecture, runtime/OS, and hardware, creating a complex
co-design problem that must be solved if computer performance and
energy efficiency is to continue to improve at current rates.

The Workshop on Managing Overprovisioned Architectures seeks to bring
together researchers from the OS, architecture, and application
communities to discuss techniques to configure, monitor, and map
applications onto architectures that contain more hardware than they
can utilize simultaneously. We are soliciting papers on topics related
to these areas, including, but not limited to:

- Power management
- System introspection and adaptation
- Self-aware architectures and runtimes
- Using accelerators for general-purpose programs
- Power-aware scheduling
- Techniques to select the best hardware for an application
- Allocating power to resources based on program needs
- Migrating execution to new resources as requirements change
- Cross-layer communication APIs
- Resilience in overprovisioned systems

Organizers:
Nick Carter (Intel), 
Romain Cledat (Intel), 
Radu Teodorescu (The Ohio State University),
Josep Torrellas, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Important dates: 
Paper submission: February 3, 2014
Acceptance notification: February 9, 2014 
Camera-ready due: February 24, 2014 
Workshop date: Saturday, March 1 2014

Submission: 
Authors should submit papers of at most four pages (two-column
format, single-spaced, at least 10-point font) in length to: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmos2014.  To make the
best use of the limited space, authors are encouraged not include any
discussion of the technological trends that are leading to
overprovisioned systems unless their ideas depend on a specific aspect
of future fabrication technologies.

Authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare six-page versions
of their papers, which will be distributed electronically at the
workshop and on the workshop website
(http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~teodores/workshops/wmos/).

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