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Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals: 29th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data & Analytics (HiPC 2022)
by Anand Panangadan 20 May '22

20 May '22

HiPC 2022 29th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data & Analytics Dec. 18-21, 2022 Bengaluru, India Website: http://www.hipc.org CALL FOR PAPERS HiPC 2022 will be the 29th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics. Each submission should be submitted to one of the six tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. Up to two best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Depending on how the COVID-19 pandemic situation evolves, the presentation may be in person or in a virtual format. Authors of selected high-quality papers in HiPC 2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Algorithms: - New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; - Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding, asynchronous, hybrid CPU-GPU algorithms, fault tolerance, resilience,); - Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); - Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); - Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models). Architecture: - High performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); - Networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); - Memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); - Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); - Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: - Shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing, simulation and visualization applications, graph and irregular applications, data-intensive applications, science/engineering/industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences, etc.); - Methods, algorithms, and optimizations for scaling applications on peta- and exa-scale platforms (e.g., co-design of hardware and software, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); - Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., GPUs, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); - Application benchmarks and workloads for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: - Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); - Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); - Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); - Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; - Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); - Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). SCALABLE DATA SCIENCE Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: - New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, data (pre-)processing and pattern discovery); - Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); - Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); - Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture, health sciences); - Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis; - Case studies, experimental studies, and benchmarks for scalable algorithms and analytics; - Scaling and accelerating machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and computer vision applications. Scalable Systems and Software: - New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; - Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); - Scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); - Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); - Systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, data deduplication, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); - Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). Important dates - Submission site open: June 15, 2022 - Abstract submissions: July 4, 2022 AOE - Full Paper submissions: July 8, 2022 AOE - First-round Author notifications: September 12, 2022 - Submission of revised papers along with response to reviews: October 10, 2022 - Author notification for revised papers: November 1, 2022 - Camera-ready version: November 15, 2022 - Conference dates: December 18-21, 2022 General Co-chairs: - Chiranjib Sur, Shell, India - Neelima Bayyapu, Consultant, India Vice General Co-chairs: - Sanmukh Rao Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA - Vivek Yadav, IIIT-Bangalore, India- - Program Co–chairs: - High performance computing: Sathish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science, India - Data science: Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Program Vice-Chairs HPC TRACKS - Algorithms: Thomas Herault, University of Tennessee, USA - Applications: Yogish Sabharwal, IBM IRL, India - Architecture: Diana Goehringer, TU Dresden, Germany - System Software: Jyothi Vedurada, IIT, Hyderabad DATA SCIENCE TRACKS - Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Zhishan Guo, University of Central Florida, USA - Scalable Systems and Software: Dan Huang, Sun Yat-Sen University, PRC Steering committee chair: - Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS https://hipc.org/call-for-workshop-proposals/ Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, networking, data analytics, and their applications. Held on the first day of the conference, HiPC workshops will typically be half-day events (3 - 3.5hrs) although proposals for full-day (6 - 7 hrs) workshops will also be considered. Workshops should have contributed papers in their program, and can have invited talks, poster sessions, and panel discussions as part of their technical program. Workshop organizers are responsible for preparing the call for papers to their workshops and also peer-review all submissions in accordance with the conference and IEEE guidelines. Papers accepted for presentation at the HiPC 2022 workshops will be included in the workshops volume of the conference proceedings with a separate ISBN (HiPCW 2022) and will be distributed online; unless the workshop organizers want it otherwise. Post-conference, papers presented at the conference and eligible for inclusion will be made available to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Workshop Themes The topics of the proposed workshop should complement those listed in the main conference call for papers. Each workshop should be centered around a coherent theme or topic related to HPC and/or scalable data science; We particularly encourage workshop themes that relate to emerging areas and/or emerging application contexts of societal value (e.g., agriculture, energy, sustainability, workforce development). What/Where to Submit Potential HiPC workshop organizers should submit a workshop proposal that contains the items listed below. The proposal should also specify steps to be taken to develop a high-quality program committee and attract high-quality submissions to place the workshop(s) in a competitive international landscape. In case, submitting a full day workshop, the organizers should explain how they will attract sufficient participation to develop a full day program of peer-reviewed papers. Proposals to organize a workshop at HiPC 2022 should include: - Description: title; topics to be addressed; goals; relevance and significance to the main conference. - Names, affiliations and contact information for organizers, along with prior experience in organizing such events, if any. - Plans for soliciting submissions, and the process for selecting papers to be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings. - Tentative names of Keynote/ invited speakers - Tentative program outline, identifying key elements such as panels, discussion sessions, poster sessions, invited talks, etc. - Tentative list of PC members to be recruited - A detailed timeline of the peer-review process The proposal should not exceed three pages and should be submitted as a pdf file to the HiPC Workshops Chairs at workshops(a)hipc.org. For additional information about organizing an HiPC workshop, see the FAQs sheet on the website: https://hipc.org/call-for-workshop-proposals/ Deadlines and Important Dates - Workshop proposal submissions: June 15, 2022 - Workshop proposal notifications: Jul 15, 2022 - Workshop Website and CFP: Aug 1, 2022 Workshop Co-Chairs - V. Krishna Nandivada, IIT Madras - Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University

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CfP: 29th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data & Analytics (HiPC 2022)
by Anand Panangadan 17 Apr '22

17 Apr '22

HiPC 2022 29th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data & Analytics Dec. 18-21, 2022 Bengaluru, India Website: http://www.hipc.org CALL FOR PAPERS HiPC 2022 will be the 29th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics. Each submission should be submitted to one of the six tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. Up to two best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Depending on how the COVID-19 pandemic situation evolves, the presentation may be in person or in a virtual format. Authors of selected high-quality papers in HiPC 2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Topics for papers include, but are not limited to the topics given under the categories below. Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): - New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; - Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding, asynchronous, hybrid CPU-GPU algorithms, fault tolerance, resilience,); - Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); - Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); - Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models). Architecture: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - High performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); - Networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); - Memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); - Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); - Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable and high performance applications for execution on parallel, distributed and accelerated platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing, simulation and visualization applications, graph and irregular applications, data-intensive applications, science/engineering/industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences, etc.); - Methods, algorithms, and optimizations for scaling applications on peta- and exa-scale platforms (e.g., co-design of hardware and software, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); - Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., GPUs, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); - Application benchmarks and workloads for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); - Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); - Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); - Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; - Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); - Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). SCALABLE DATA SCIENCE Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, data (pre-)processing and pattern discovery); - Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); - Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); - Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture, health sciences); - Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis; - Case studies, experimental studies, and benchmarks for scalable algorithms and analytics; - Scaling and accelerating machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and computer vision applications. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; - Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); - Scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); - Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); - Systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, data deduplication, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); - Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). Important dates - Submission site open: June 15, 2022 - Abstract submissions: July 4, 2022 AOE - Full Paper submissions: July 8, 2022 AOE - First-round Author notifications: September 12, 2022 - Submission of revised papers along with response to reviews: October 10, 2022 - Author notification for revised papers: November 1, 2022 - Camera-ready version: November 15, 2022 - Conference dates: December 18-21, 2022 General Co-chairs: - Chiranjib Sur, Shell, India - Neelima Bayyapu, Consultant, India Vice General Co-chairs: - Sanmukh Rao Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA - Vivek Yadav, IIIT-Bangalore, India- - Program Co–chairs: - High performance computing: Sathish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science, India - Data science: Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Steering committee chair: - Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Program Vice-Chairs HPC TRACKS - Algorithms: Thomas Herault, University of Tennessee, USA - Applications: Yogish Sabharwal, IBM IRL, India - Architecture: Diana Goehringer, TU Dresden, Germany - System Software: Jyothi Vedurada, IIT, Hyderabad DATA SCIENCE TRACKS - Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Zhishan Guo, University of Central Florida, USA - Scalable Systems and Software: Dan Huang, Sun Yat-Sen University, PRC

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): First Call for Contributions
by Announce Announcements 08 Oct '21

08 Oct '21

*** First Call for Contributions *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Main Track Paper Submission The papers should not exceed six (6) pages (US letter size) double-column, including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/) They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. Special journal issues will be organised where the best accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions. Separate call-for-papers will be announced for the special tracks (more information will be available on the conference web site). Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed four (4) pages (US letter size) double column, including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/) Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 23 May 2022 • Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 11 July 2022 Program Chairs • Costas Mourlas, University of Athens, Greece • Diogo Pacheco, University of Exeter, UK • Catia Prandi, University of Bologna, Italy WiP & PhD Track Chairs • Marco Furini, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy • Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece • Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): Third Call for Papers and Final Call for Special Sessions Proposals
by Announce Announcements 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

*** Third Call for Papers and Final Call for Special Sessions Proposals *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Special Sessions Proposals Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino (gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it) and to the General Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy) by specifying: - Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio - Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional) - Special Session title - Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page) - A list of main topics of the Special Session - A list of potential/expected contributors Submissions Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages plus at most 2 pages overlength. Submissions of full papers are accepted online through Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022) The EAIS 2022 proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in a special issue of Evolving Systems - An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology (Springer). Important Dates • Special Session proposal submission: October 15, 2021 • Special Session proposal acceptance: October 22, 2021 • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): First Call for Special Track Proposals
by Announce Announcements 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

*** First Call for Special Track Proposals *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope ACM GoodIT focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. Social good is typically defined as an action that provides some sort of benefit to the general public. In this case, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create positive societal impact. GoodIT topics include but not limited to: • IT for education • Data Science • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Data sensing, processing, and persistency • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for development • Privacy and trust issues and solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Smart governance and e-administration • IT for smart living • Technology addressing the digital divide • IT for automotive • Frugal solutions for IT • Ethical computing • Decentralized approaches to IT • Citizen science • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable IT • Social informatics • Civic intelligence Special Tracks Proposals GoodIT 2022 will feature special tracks whose aim is to focus on a specific topic of interest related to the overall scope of the conference. We solicit proposals for special tracks to be held within the main conference and whose publications will be included in the conference proceedings. Tracks proposals can focus on any contemporary themes that highlight social good aspects in the design, implementation, deployment, securing, and evaluation of IT technologies. Special Track Proposal Format A special track proposal must contain the following information: • Title of the special track. • The names of the organizers (indicatively, two) with affiliations, contact information, and a single paragraph of a brief bio. • A short description of the scope and topics of the track (max 1/2 page) and a brief explanation of: (1) why the topic is timely and important; (2) why the topic is related to the conference’s main theme; (3) why the track may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality. • Indication if a journal special issue is associated with the track, possibly with information on the process of selecting papers. • The plan to disseminate the call for papers of the special track for achieving a reasonable number of paper submissions (a list of emailing lists will help). • A tentative Program Committee list. • A draft Call for Papers (max 1 page). Publication Papers submitted to each particular track have to satisfy the same criteria as for the main conference. They must be original works and must not have been previously published. They have to be peer-reviewed by the track's Program Committee (at least three reviews per submitted paper are required). The final version of papers must follow the formatting instructions of the main conference (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/) At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. The special track may provide an option for publishing extended versions of selected papers in a special issue of a journal. Special Track Proposal Submission Guidelines Special track proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file to the special track Chairs (see below) via email to: ombretta.gaggi(a)unipd.it, valentino.vranic(a)stuba.sk, and rysavy(a)fit.vut.cz. The subject of the e-mail must be: “GoodIT 2022 – special track proposal”. The special track chairs may ask proposers for supplying additional information during the review period. Important Dates • Special Track Proposal Submission Deadline: 13 December 2021 • Notification of Selection: 20 December 2021 Contact (Special Tracks Chairs) • Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padua, Italy) • Ondrej Rysavy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) • Valentino Vranic (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): Final Call for Special Sessions Proposals
by Announce Announcements 24 Sep '21

24 Sep '21

*** Final Call for Special Sessions Proposals *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Special Sessions Proposals Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino (gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it) and to the General Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy) by specifying: - Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio - Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional) - Special Session title - Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page) - A list of main topics of the Special Session - A list of potential/expected contributors Important Dates • Special Session proposal submission: October 1, 2021 • Special Session proposal acceptance: October 10, 2021 • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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Call for Papers - 1st WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL PROGRAMMING IN THE EXASCALE ERA
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 1st WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL PROGRAMMING IN THE EXASCALE ERA (PPEE) https://hipc.org/call-for-ppee/ | https://ppee-workshop.github.io/ in conjunction with the 28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2021) December 17-18, 2021 | Virtual Event, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW The upcoming exascale systems will impose new requirements on application developers and programming systems to target platforms with hundreds of homogeneous and heterogeneous cores. The four critical challenges for exascale systems are extreme parallelism, power demand, data movement, and reliability. These systems are aimed to solve problems that were previously out of reach and improve the parallel performance of applications by a factor of 50x. The power budget for achieving a billion billion (quintillion) floating-point operations per second (exaflops) should be within 20-30 MW. Moving the data on these systems relative to the computation will be challenging due to complex memory hierarchies. It would be essential to keep the CPUs/accelerators busy once they have the data to avoid memory bottlenecks. Failures on these systems are anticipated to occur many times a day, such that the existing approach for resiliency, such as checkpointing and restart, will not work. TOPICS The goal of this workshop is to attract leading researchers to exchange ideas and share their work-in-progress and latest results to address the exascale software challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * High-level programming models for many-cores / accelerators * Compilation techniques for hybrid CPU/accelerator parallelism * Intra-/Inter-node load balancing and scheduling * Runtime systems for high performance and high productivity * Comparisons of runtime systems and parallel programming models * OS/runtime and system software for many-core systems, accelerators, and non-uniform memory hierarchy * Optimizing data locality and data movement * Energy efficiency and optimizations * Resilience and fault-tolerance * Scalable algorithms * Scalable synchronization mechanisms * Concurrent data structures * Applying machine learning techniques in HPC IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: October 24, 2021 (encouraged) Paper Submission Deadline: October 31, 2021 (hard deadline) Paper Notification: November 15, 2021 Presentation Slides Upload Deadline: November 22, 2021 All Deadlines are by 11:59 pm AOE (UTC-12) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppee2021. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and must not exceed five (5) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5×11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The submitted paper should list the authors and their affiliations. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions here (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. The accepted papers will be invited for presentation at the workshop. However, these papers will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will allow the authors to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the workshop. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, and relevance to the workshop. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Vivek Kumar, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi Swarnendu Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Vishwesh Jatala, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai NOTICE ABOUT COVID-19 We are closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation globally and in India in particular. The decision whether to hold the conference on-site or virtually will be made before October 2021. Should the conference be held on-site, we understand that travel to India and within India may still be difficult or even impossible for some. Because travel from outside India will require an entry visa and that there may be travel restrictions still in place, we will arrange some form of remote presentation for those authors. We do not have changes to how accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore — every accepted paper will have at least one author who will register at the notified (reduced) registration fee and also present the paper at the conference (virtually/physically). Regards, Sanmukh Kuppannagari Senior Research Associate University of Southern California https://sanmukh.github.io/

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13th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 13th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) https://hipc.org/srs/ in conjunction with the 28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2021) December 17-18, 2021 | Virtual Event, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2021 will feature the 13th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2021 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. High-Performance Computing Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high-performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); * Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); * Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and * Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high-performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; Software for the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). Data Science Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); * Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Submission Opens: August 19, 2021 Submission Deadline: October 01, 2021 Accept/Reject Decision Notification: November 01, 2021 Symposium: December 17-18, 2021 ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2021. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers/extended abstracts, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1” margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2021 The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Dip Sankar Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ashok Srinivasan (Co-chair), University of West Florida Dip Banerjee (Co-chair), Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur Mainak Adhikari, Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow Vikram Aggarwal, Google Ashish Anand, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Jayvant Anantpur, Mentor Graphics India Pvt Ltd Manu Awasthi, Ashoka University Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Venkatachalam Chandrasekaran, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning Mainak Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Meysam Ghaffari, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Subramaniam KV, PES University Dumitrel Loghin, National University of Singapore Arash Mahyari, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Amit Majumdar, University of California San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center Sreepathi Pai, University of Rochester Madhura Purnaprajna, PES University Ponnuswamy Sadayappan, University of Utah Fahad Saeed, Florida International University Subodh Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba Hemanth Venkateswara, Arizona State University CONTACT Write to us at student_symposium [AT] hipc [DOT] org for more details.

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Call for Papers - 3rd EduHiPC workshop in conjunction with HiPC-2021
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 06 Sep '21

06 Sep '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 3rd Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing (EduHiPC 2021) https://hipc.org/eduhipc/ in conjunction with the 28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2021) December 17-18, 2021 | Virtual Event, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW The 3rd EduHiPC (EduHiPC 2021) workshop invites unpublished manuscripts from academia, industry, and government laboratories on topics pertaining to needs and approaches for augmenting undergraduate and graduate education in Computer Science and Engineering, Computational Science, and computational courses for both STEM and business disciplines with PDC and HPC concepts. Additionally, we highly encourage manuscripts that validate their innovative approaches through the systematic collection and analysis of information to evaluate their performance and impact. The workshop is particularly dedicated to bringing together stakeholders from industry (both hardware vendors and employers), government labs, and academia in the context of HiPC 2021. The goal is to hear the challenges faced by others, to learn about various approaches to addressing these challenges, and to have opportunities to exchange ideas and solutions. We also encourage submissions related to the challenges in imparting education during this difficult pandemic situation. This effort is in coordination with the Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Pedagogical issues in incorporating PDC and HPC in undergraduate and graduate education, especially in core courses. - Novel ways of teaching PDC and HPC topics. - Issues and experiences addressing remote synchronous and asynchronous teaching of PDC/HPC during the current pandemic situation. - Data science and big data aspects of teaching HPC/PDC, including early experience with data science degree programs. - Evidence-based educational practices for teaching HPC/PDC topics that provide evidence about what works best under what circumstances. - Experience with incorporating PDC and HPC topics into core CS/CE courses and in domains. - Experience and challenges with HPC education in developing countries, especially in India, its vicinity, and Asia. - Computational Science and Engineering courses. - Pedagogical tools, programming environments, infrastructures, languages, and projects for PDC and HPC. - Employers’ experiences with new hires and expectation of the level of PDC and HPC proficiency among new graduates. - Education resources based on high-level programming languages and environments such as X10, Chapel, Haskell, Python, Cilk, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenACC, Hadoop, and Spark. - Parallel and distributed models of programming and computation suitable for teaching, learning, and workforce development. - Issues and experiences addressing the gender gap in computing and broadening participation of underrepresented groups. - Challenges in remote teaching, including those related to meaningful engagement of students and assessment. NOTICE ABOUT COVID-19 We are closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation globally and in India in particular. The decision whether to hold the conference on-site or virtually will be made before October 2021. Should the conference be held on-site, we understand that travel to India and within India may still be difficult or even impossible for some. Because travel from outside India will require an entry visa and that there may be travel restrictions still in place, we will arrange some form of remote presentation for those authors. We do not have changes to how accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore — every accepted paper will have at least one author who will register at the notified (reduced) registration fee and also present the paper at the conference (virtually/physically). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors should submit papers in PDF format through the submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eduhipc21) We are accepting submissions for full papers (5-8 pages including figures, tables, and references). Submissions should be formatted as single-spaced, double-column pages (IEEE format). Authors must try to revise their papers to incorporate feedback from the reviewers. All accepted papers will be published in the HiPC Workshop Proceedings and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Accepted papers will be available from the CDER website approximately 2 weeks before the workshop so that attendees can read papers before attending the talks. Papers that are not accepted as full papers may be optionally accepted as short poster papers (2 pages). Authors of papers accepted as poster papers will be invited to revise their papers in a 2-page format. Authors of all accepted full and short papers must present at the workshop. Authors will be further invited to publish their work in a Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) special issue, as in the past workshops. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: October 7, 2021 (encouraged) Paper Submission Deadline: October 12, 2021 (hard deadline) Paper Notification: November 5, 2021 Camera-ready Deadline: November 12, 2021 All deadlines are at 11:59 PM AOE (UTC-12). Organizing Committee Sushil Prasad, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA Sheikh Ghafoor, Tennessee Tech University, USA Alan Sussman, National Science Foundation & University of Maryland, USA Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA Anshul Gupta, IBM, USA Charles Weems, University of Massachusetts, USA Ashish Kuvelkar, CDAC, India Preeti Malakar, IIT Kanpur, India Workshop Co-Chairs Sushil K. Prasad, University of Texas San Antonio, USA, sushil.prasad(a)utsa.edu Sheikh Ghafoor, Tennessee Tech University, USA, sghafoor(a)tntech.edu Program Co-Chairs Ashish Kuvelkar, CDAC, India, ashishk(a)cdac.in Preeti Malakar, IIT Kanpur, India, pmalakar(a)cse.iitk.ac.in Proceedings Chair Satish Puri, Marquette University, USA Tentative Program Committee Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA Martina Barnas, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Nasser Giacaman, The University of Auckland, NZ Henry Gabb, Intel, USA Mike Rogers, Tennessee Tech University, USA Anshul Gupta, IBM Research, USA Ritu Arora, University of Texas, USA David Brown, Elmhurst University, USA Joel Adams, Calvin College, USA Charles Weems, University of Massachusetts, USA Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA David Bunde, Knox College, USA Chitra P., Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India Kazi A. Kalpoma, Ahsanullah University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh Devangi Parikh, University of Texas, USA Somnath Roy, IIT Kharagpur Unnikrishnan C, IIT Palakkad Swarnendu Biswas, IIT Kanpur Nikhil Hegde, IIT Dharwad Jagpreet Singh, IIIT Allahabad G. Ramakrishna, IIT Tirupati

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9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022): Early Call for Contributions
by Announce Announcements 04 Sep '21

04 Sep '21

*** Early Call for Contributions *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany https://www.esocc-conf.eu Scope Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling flexibility by offering a centralised sharing of resources. The industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on- demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service- oriented applications in the cloud. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of service- oriented computing and cloud computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of service-oriented computing and cloud computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. Tracks - Main conference: three days of invited talks, panels, and presentations of selected research papers, including a dedicated day to satellite workshops. - PhD Symposium: an opportunity for PhD students to present their research activities and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, hence getting fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities. - Projects Track: a useful opportunity for researchers to disseminate the latest research developments in their projects and meet representatives of other consortia. Details about all the tracks are available at the conference web site: https://www.esocc-conf.eu . Topics of interest ESOCC 2022 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of service- oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Service and Cloud Computing Models  • Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies  • Governance models  • Architectural models  • Requirements engineering  • Formal Methods  • Model-Driven Engineering  • Quality models  • Security, Privacy & Trust models  • Self-Organising Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models  • Testing models - Service and Cloud Computing Engineering  • Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection  • Monitoring and Analytics  • Governance and management  • Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions  • Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications  • Cross-layer adaptation  • Edge/Fog computing  • Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management  • Service Level Agreement Management  • Service Evolution/Optimisation  • Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation  • QoS for Services and Clouds  • Semantic Web Services  • Service mining  • Service & Cloud Standards  • FaaS / Serverless computing - Technologies  • DevOps in the Cloud  • Containerized services  • Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds  • Microservices: Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management  • Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories  • RESTful Services  • Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms  • Blockchain for Services & Clouds  • Services and Clouds with IoT  • Fog Computing with Service and Cloud - Business and Social aspects  • Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud  • Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management  • Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities  • Business Process as a Service - BPaaS  • Service and Cloud Business Models  • Service and Cloud Brokerage  • Service and Cloud Marketplaces  • Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing  • Crowdsourcing Business Services  • Social and Crowd-based Cloud  • Energy issues in Cloud Computing  • Sustainability issues Submissions from industry are welcome (for example, use cases). Submissions ESOCC 2022 invites submissions in all the tracks: - Regular research papers (15 pages including references) - PhD Symposium (8 pages including references, authored by the PhD student with indication of his/her supervisors' names) - Projects Track (1 to 5 pages including references, describing an ongoing project) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022 by selecting the right track. All accepted regular research papers are expected to be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs) Accepted papers of the other tracks and the satellite workshops are expected to be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. A journal special issue is planned, and authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their articles. Workshop Proposals ESOCC 2022 also invites proposals for satellite workshops. More details about the proposal format and submission can be found at https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/ . Important Dates Regular research & industrial papers: - Paper submission: 31 October 2021 - Notifications: 7 January 2022 - Camera Ready versions due: 20 January 2022 Projects track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 PhD Symposium Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Industrial Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Satellite Workshops: - Workshop Proposal submission: 8 October 2021 - Workshop Proposal notification: 15 October 2021 - Workshop Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Workshop Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Workshop Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Organization General Chair • Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Programme Co-Chairs • Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) • George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Industrial Track Chair • Andreas Both (Anhalt University of Applied Science) Projects Track Chair • Damian Tamburri (Technical University Eindhoven) Workshops Co-Chairs • Guadalupe Ortiz (University of C·diz, Spain) • Christian Zirpins (Karlsruhe University of Applied Science) PhD Symposium Co-Chair • Jacopo Soldani (University of Pisa) • Massimo Villari (University of Messina)

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): Second Call for Papers and Special Sessions
by Announce Announcements 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

*** Second Call for Papers and Special Sessions *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Special Sessions Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino (gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it) and to the General Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy) by specifying: - Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio - Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional) - Special Session title - Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page) - A list of main topics of the Special Session - A list of potential/expected contributors Submissions Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages plus at most 2 pages overlength. Submissions of full papers are accepted online through Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022) The EAIS 2022 proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in a special issue of Evolving Systems - An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology (Springer). Important Dates • Special Session submission: October 1, 2021 • Special Session acceptance: October 10, 2021 • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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Call for Papers - 13th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 13th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) www.hipc.org/srs in conjunction with the 28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2021) December 17-20, 2021 | Virtual Event, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2021 will feature the 13th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2021 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. High-Performance Computing Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): - New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; - Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); - Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); - Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and - Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high-performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); - Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); - Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); - Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and - Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); - Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); - Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and - Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high-performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); - Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); - Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); - Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; - Software for the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and - Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). Data Science Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); - Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); - Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); - Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and - Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); - Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); - Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); - Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and - Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Aug 19, 2021 > Submission Opens Sep 17, 2021 > Submission Deadline Nov 1, 2021 > Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2021 > Symposium ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2021. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers/extended abstracts, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1'' margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2021 The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIT Jodhpur, India CONTACT Contact student_symposium at hipc dot org for more details.

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022): First Call for Papers and Special Sessions
by Announce Announcements 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

*** First Call for Papers and Special Sessions *** 2022 IEEE International Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022) May 25-27, 2022, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ <http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/> (Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Xplore Digital Library; Special Journal Issue with Evolving Systems, Springer) IEEE EAIS 2022 will provide a working and friendly atmosphere and will be a leading international forum focusing on the discussion of recent advances, the exchange of recent innovations and the outline of open important future challenges in the area of Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems. Over the past decade, this area has emerged to play an important role on a broad international level in today's real-world applications, especially those ones with high complexity and dynamic changes. Its embedded modelling and learning methodologies are able to cope with real-time demands, changing operation conditions, varying environmental influences, human behaviours, knowledge expansion scenarios and drifts in online data streams. Conference Topics Basic Methodologies Evolving Soft Computing Techniques. Evolving Fuzzy Systems. Evolving Rule-Based Classifiers. Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Adaptive Evolving Neural Networks. Online Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms. Data Stream Mining. Incremental and Evolving Clustering. Adaptive Pattern Recognition. Incremental and Evolving ML Classifiers. Adaptive Statistical Techniques. Evolving Decision Systems. Big Data. Problems and Methodologies in Data Streams Stability, Robustness, Convergence in Evolving Systems. Online Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction. Online Active and Semi-supervised Learning. Online Complexity Reduction. Computational Aspects. Interpretability Issues. Incremental Adaptive Ensemble Methods. Online Bagging and Boosting. Self-monitoring Evolving Systems. Human-Machine Interaction Issues. Hybrid Modelling, Transfer Learning. Reservoir Computing. Applications of EAIS Time Series Prediction. Data Stream Mining and Adaptive Knowledge Discovery. Robotics. Intelligent Transport and Advanced Manufacturing. Advanced Communications and Multimedia Applications. Bioinformatics and Medicine. Online Quality Control and Fault Diagnosis. Condition Monitoring Systems. Adaptive Evolving Controller Design. User Activities Recognition. Huge Database and Web Mining. Visual Inspection and Image Classification. Image Processing. Cloud Computing. Multiple Sensor Networks. Query Systems and Social Networks. Alternative Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. Special Sessions Distinguished researchers working in theory, analysis and applications of evolving adaptive and intelligent systems and related areas are encouraged to submit proposals within the technical scope of IEEE EAIS 2022. Researchers interested in organising special sessions are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Special Sessions Chair Gabriella Casalino (gabriella.casalino(a)uniba.it <mailto:gabriella.casalino@uniba.it>) and to the General Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos (george(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy <mailto:george@cs.ucy.ac.cy>), by specifying: - Special Session Lead Organiser email address, details and mini-bio - Co-Organiser(s) details and mini-bio (optional) - Special Session title - Aim and scope of the Special Session (~half a page) - A list of main topics of the Special Session - A list of potential/expected contributors Submissions Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages plus at most 2 pages overlength. Submissions of full papers are accepted online through Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eais2022>). The EAIS 2022 proceedings will be published on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in a special issue of Evolving Systems - An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology (Springer). Important Dates • Special Session submission: October 1, 2021 • Special Session acceptance: October 10, 2021 • Paper submission: January 10, 2022 • Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 19, 2022 • Camera ready submission: March 20, 2022 • Authors registration: March 20, 2022 • Conference Dates: May 25-27, 2022 Social Media FB: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS <https://www.facebook.com/IEEEEAIS> Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS <https://twitter.com/IEEE_EAIS> Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867… <https://www.linkedin.com/events/2022ieeeconferenceonevolvingand681556007867…> Organization Honorary Chairs • Dimitar Filev, Ford Motor Co., USA • Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus • Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Program Committee Chairs • Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy • José A. Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

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[Final Paper Deadline in less than 1 Week] - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 10 Jul '21

10 Jul '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Final Paper Submission deadline for the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science, HiPC 2021 is in less than one week. Please submit your papers before the deadline. Please note that this is a hard deadline and no further extension will be granted. Paper Submission Deadline: 16 July, 2021 (hard deadline) More information can be found at the call for papers: https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ Regards, Sanmukh Kuppannagari Senior Research Associate University of Southern California https://sanmukh.github.io/

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[Abstract Deadline in 1 Week] - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Abstract Submission deadline for the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science, HiPC 2021 is in one week. Please register your papers before the deadline. Abstract Submission Deadline: 8 July, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 16 July, 2021 (hard deadline) More information can be found at the call for papers: https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ Regards, Sanmukh Kuppannagari Senior Research Associate University of Southern California https://sanmukh.github.io/

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Deadlines Approaching - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper submission deadlines for the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science, HiPC 2021 are approaching. Please note that these are hard deadlines and no further extension will be granted. Abstract Submission Deadline: 8 July, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 16 July, 2021 (hard deadline) More information can be found at the call for papers: https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ Regards, Sanmukh Kuppannagari Senior Research Associate University of Southern California https://sanmukh.github.io/

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Deadlines Extended - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper submission deadlines for the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science, HiPC 2021 have been extended. Please note that the updated deadlines are hard deadlines and no further extension will be granted. Abstract Submission Deadline: 8 July, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 16 July, 2021 (hard deadline) The updated Call for Papers follows below. The same can be downloaded from: https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ Regards, Sanmukh Kuppannagari Senior Research Associate University of Southern California https://sanmukh.github.io/ HiPC 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS 28th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 17–20 December 2021 in Bangalore, India PROGRAM CHAIRS HPC: Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (a.l.varbanescu(a)uva.nl) Data Science: Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India (simmhan(a)iisc.ac.in) PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC TRACKS Algorithms: Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, USA Applications: Abhinav Bhatele, University of Maryland, USA Architecture: Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, USA System Software: Sathish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science, India DATA SCIENCE TRACKS Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Zeyi Wen, University of Western Australia, Australia Scalable Systems and Software: Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory, USA HiPC 2021 will be the 28th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the six tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. Up to two best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Algorithms. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models). Architecture. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * High performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); * Networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable and high performance applications for execution on parallel, distributed and accelerated platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing, simulation and visualization applications, graph and irregular applications, data-intensive applications, science/engineering/industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences, etc.); * Methods, algorithms, and optimizations for scaling applications on peta- and exa-scale platforms (e.g., co-design of hardware and software, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., GPUs, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); * Application benchmarks and workloads for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). SCALABLE DATA SCIENCE Scalable Algorithms and Analytics. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis; * Case studies, experimental studies, and benchmarks for scalable algorithms and analytics; * Scaling and accelerating machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision applications. Scalable Systems and Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: 8 July, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 16 July, 2021 (hard deadline) Notification of Initial Decisions: 27 September, 2021 Deadline for Revised Submission: 18 October, 2021 Notification of Final Decisions: 25 October, 2021 Camera Ready Due (for all accepted papers): 7 November, 2021 MANUSCRIPT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Abstracts of no more than 300 words must be submitted by the abstract submission deadline. The title and abstract submitted by this deadline should have sufficient detail and not just be a placeholder. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5×11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The submitted paper should list the authors and their affiliations. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions here. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Papers must be submitted under one of the 6 technical tracks listed above. The topics listed under each track are representative, but not exhaustive. A published proceeding will be available at the conference. Authors may contact the Program Chair at the email address above for further information or clarification. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper in person is a requirement of publication for a physical conference. Depending on how the COVID-19 pandemic situation evolves, the presentation may be in person or in a virtual format. Details of these will be specified at the time of paper acceptance.[a] Any paper not meeting requirements will not be included in the conference proceedings under IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected high-quality papers in HiPC 2021 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2021. REVIEW PROCESS All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper, for example in a separate paragraph in the introduction of the paper. The review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper), and that there will be a rebuttal period. The initial decision for the submission may be Accept, Reject or Revise. Papers that are recommended for revision will have to address the comments from the reviewers, and submit a revised article along with a summary of changes. This will go through a light review and the final decision will be communicated.

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Deadlines Approaching - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 24 May '21

24 May '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science, HiPC 2021: Deadlines Approaching Abstract Submission Deadline: 4 June, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 11 June, 2021 For more details, please visit: https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/

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IEEE HiPC 2021 Programming Contest Call For Participation
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2021 PROGRAMMING CONTEST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************************************** 28th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 17–20 December 2021 in Bangalore, India https://hipc.org/ HiPC 2021 PROGRAMMING CONTEST https://hipc.org/programming/ The objective of the HiPC Programming Contest is to introduce bright and motivated students to industry-relevant problems in the area of high performance computing. This engagement will act as a bridge between industry and academia to forge active engagement between the two. CPU Track Nagendra GD, University of North Texas Amey Karkare, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Anuj Pathania, University of Amsterdam Biswabandan Panda, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur GPU Track Vishwesh Jatala, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai Jayvant Anantpur, Mentor Graphics, USA FPGA Track Madhura Purnaprajna, PES University, Bangalore Vipin Kizheppatt, BITS Pilani, Goa Nithin George, Intel Corporation Nachiket Kapre, University of Waterloo Tentative Timeline Registration open: August 2nd week Challenge problem release, Mentor forum open: August 4th week Online Training Session: September 2nd week Team given access to cluster for self evaluation: October 1st week Final Submission Deadline: Oct 4th week Final Notifications: Nov 2nd week Please contact contest(a)hipc.org for questions or clarifications.

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IEEE HiPC 2021 Call For Papers
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************** 28th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 17–20 December 2021 in Bangalore, India https://hipc.org/ PROGRAM CHAIRS HPC: Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (a.l.varbanescu(a)uva.nl) Data Science: Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India (simmhan(a)iisc.ac.in) HPC TRACKS Algorithms: Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, USA Applications: Abhinav Bhatele, University of Maryland, USA Architecture: Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, USA System Software: Sathish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science, India DATA SCIENCE TRACKS Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Zeyi Wen, University of Western Australia, Australia Scalable Systems and Software: Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory, USA HiPC 2021 will be the 28th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics, and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the six tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. Up to two best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Algorithms. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models). Architecture. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * High performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); * Networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable and high performance applications for execution on parallel, distributed and accelerated platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing, simulation and visualization applications, graph and irregular applications, data-intensive applications, science/engineering/industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences, etc.); * Methods, algorithms, and optimizations for scaling applications on peta- and exa-scale platforms (e.g., co-design of hardware and software, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., GPUs, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); * Application benchmarks and workloads for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). SCALABLE DATA SCIENCE Scalable Algorithms and Analytics. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis; * Case studies, experimental studies, and benchmarks for scalable algorithms and analytics; * Scaling and accelerating machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision applications. Scalable Systems and Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: 4 June, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: 11 June, 2021 Notification of Initial Decisions: 27 August, 2021 Deadline for Revised Submission: 17 September, 2021 Notification of Final Decisions: 1 October, 2021 Camera Ready Due (for all accepted papers): 15 October, 2021 MANUSCRIPT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Abstracts of no more than 300 words must be submitted by the abstract submission deadline. The title and abstract submitted by this deadline should have sufficient detail and not just be a placeholder. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5×11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The submitted paper should list the authors and their affiliations. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions here. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Papers must be submitted under one of the 6 technical tracks listed above. The topics listed under each track are representative, but not exhaustive. A published proceeding will be available at the conference. Authors may contact the Program Chair at the email address above for further information or clarification. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper in person is a requirement of publication for a physical conference. Depending on how the COVID-19 pandemic situation evolves, the presentation may be in person or in a virtual format. Details of these will be specified at the time of paper acceptance. Any paper not meeting requirements will not be included in the conference proceedings under IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected high-quality papers in HiPC 2021 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2021. REVIEW PROCESS All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper, for example in a separate paragraph in the introduction of the paper. The review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper), and that there will be a rebuttal period. The initial decision for the submission may be Accept, Reject or Revise. Papers that are recommended for revision will have to address the comments from the reviewers, and submit a revised article along with a summary of changes. This will go through a light review and the final decision will be communicated.

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Call for Papers - Special Issue on "Applications of IoT and Cloud Computing in Smart Grids" in the Electronics Journal (Impact Factor: 2.412)
by Sanmukh Rao Kuppannagari 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

**************************************************************************************** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please forward it to anyone who might be interested. *************************************************************************************** Special Issue on "Applications of IoT and Cloud Computing in Smart Grids" in the Electronics Journal (Impact Factor: 2.412) Call For Papers https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/SG_electronics Dear Colleagues, We are on the verge of the so-called fourth industrial revolution. Recent advances in cyber-physical systems are enabling the acquisition, delivery, and analysis of increasingly large volumes of data. Cloud computing, with its seamless approach to scalable computing, has emerged as a suitable solution for businesses running data analytics involving machine learning tasks that would otherwise not be feasible using traditional computers. The increasing number of sensors has showcased the potential of IoT in making our world safer, more accessible, and comfortable. However, until the advent of 5G, there was no suitable means of making these two worlds communicate efficiently. The energy sector with its smart grids is such an example, where, for instance, (1) data from tens of thousands of sensors from customers are gathered by providers to gain meaningful insight on real-time demand optimization (2) and real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance of remote renewable energy sources is needed for optimizing the load balancing. For a significant period, transmitting this data in near real-time over Wi-Fi and wireless has been hindered by the network capability. Software-driven solutions involving on edge or fog preprocessing combined with periodic cloud-based analytics of the resulting metadata have been a key focus of research. The advent of 5G opens new opportunities for at-scale bi-directional delivery and analysis of real-time customer and utility data. In this Special Issue, we aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners from the field of smart grids to showcase state-of-the-art cyber-physical solutions to current challenges in smart grid analytics. These should cover the full spectrum of hardware (sensors, networks), software (middleware, platforms, applications), and data (storage, privacy, security) aspects for fast scalable data analytics involving the entire cyber-physical stack, from IoT to cloud systems. We, therefore, invite contributors to present their models, frameworks, and applications with a focus on hybrid IoT/cloud computing for smart grids with all its challenges. Guest Editors Dr. Marc Frincu, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK Dr. Sanmukh Rao Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Prof. Dr. Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Prof. Dr. Cesar A. F. De Rose, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Dr. Mayank Malik, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, USA Submission information can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/SG_electronics Regards, Sanmukh Kuppannagari Senior Research Associate University of Southern California https://sanmukh.github.io/

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IEEE HiPC 2020 Call For Participation
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

*********************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2020 https://hipc.org/ *********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 is the 27th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. The conference focus is not only HPC but also includes Data Science. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the conference will be held virtually on December 16, 17, and 18. Each day of the three day event will open with a keynote talk, followed by two one-hour live remote sessions to present the technical program of thirty-three peer reviewed papers. All papers accepted for the conference will be published as part of the proceedings that will be available before, during, and after the week of the scheduled conference. The online publication will include both papers and presentations (slides) for each paper. Access to the online publication is part of the free registration to attend the virtual live sessions. See here (https://hipc.org/register2020/) to register. Below is the planned program schedule for the conference. Return regularly for updates and details on how to attend. All times below are India Standard Time (IST). Wednesday, December 16th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Kathy Yelick University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computing and Data Challenges in Climate Change Best Papers Session (10:10 AM IST – start time) SimGQ: Simultaneously Evaluating Iterative Graph Queries Chengshuo Xu, Abbas Mazloumi, Xiaolin Jiang and Rajiv Gupta WarpCore: A Library for fast Hash Tables on GPUs Daniel Jünger, Robin Kobus, André Müller, Kai Xu, Weiguo Liu, Christian Hundt and Bertil Schmidt Session 1: Applications (11:20 AM IST – start time) Towards High Performance, Portability, and Productivity: Lightweight Augmented Neural Networks for Performance Prediction Ajitesh Srivastava, Naifeng Zhang, Rajgopal Kannan and Viktor K. Prasanna. Performance Optimization and Scalability Analysis of the MGB Hydrological Model Henrique R. A. Freitas, Celso Luiz Mendes and Aleksandar Ilic Exploring Task Parallelism for the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm Michael Lingg, H. Metin Aktulga, Balasubramaniam Shanker, Stephen Hughey and Doga Dikbayir SparsePipe: Parallel Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds Keke Zhai, Pan He, Tania Banerjee, Anand Rangarajan and Sanjay Ranka HyPR: Hybrid Page Ranking on Evolving Graphs Hemant Kumar Giri, Mridul Haque and Dip Sankar Banerjee Distributing Sparse Matrix/Graph Applications in Heterogeneous Clusters -- an Experimental Study Charilaos Tzovas, Maria Predari and Henning Meyerhenke ************************************************************************************************ Thursday, December 17th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Animashree Anandkumar California Institute of Technology and Machine Learning Research, NVIDIA Role of HPC in next-generation AI Session 2: Scalable Data Science (10:10 AM IST – start time) Processor Pipelining Method for Efficient Deep Neural Network Inference on Embedded Devices Akshay Parashar, Arun Abraham, Deepak Chaudhary and Vikram Nelvoy Rajendiran Avoiding Communication in Logistic Regression Aditya Devarakonda and James Demmel A Parallel and Scalable Framework for Insider Threat Detection Abdoulaye Diop, Nahid Emad and Thierry Winter Blink: Towards Efficient RDMA-based Communication Coroutines for Parallel Python Applications Aamir Shafi, Jahanzeb Maqbool Hashmi, Hari Subramoni and Dhabaleswar K. Panda Content-defined Container Delivery Yuta Nakamura, Tanu Malik and Raza Ahmad Model Checking as a Service using Dynamic Resource Scaling Surya Teja, Yuvraj Singh, Adhish Singla, Suresh Purini and Venkatesh Choppella Session 3: Algorithms (11:20 AM IST – start time) Parallel Hierarchical Clustering using Rank-Two Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Lawton Manning, Grey Ballard, Ramakrishnan Kannan and Haesun Park Pipelined Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods for Distributed Memory Systems Manasi Tiwari and Sathish Vadhiyar Fair Allocation of Asymmetric Operations in Storage Systems Thomas Keller and Peter Varman A GPU Algorithm for Earliest Arrival Time Problem in Public Transport Networks Chirayu Anant Haryan, G. Ramakrishna, Rupesh Nasre and Allam Dinesh Reddy 2D Static Resource Allocation Strategies for Load Balancing in Compressed Linear Algebra under Communication Constraints Olivier Beaumont, Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Mathieu Verite Algorithms for Preemptive Co-scheduling of Kernels on GPUs Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Cristiana Bentes ************************************************************************************ Friday, December 18th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Fabrizio Petrini Parallel Computing Lab Intel Corporation Breaking the Scalability Wall Session 4: Runtime Systems (10:10 AM IST – start time) Understanding HPC Application I/O Behavior Using System Level Statistics Arnab K. Paul, Olaf Faaland, Adam Moody, Elsa Gonsiorowski, Kathryn Mohror and Ali R. Butt AMCilk: A Framework for Multiprogrammed Parallel Workloads Zhe Wang, Chen Xu, Kunal Agrawal and Jing Li Extending SLURM for Dynamic Resource-Aware Adaptive Batch Scheduling Mohak Chadha, Jophin John and Michael Gerndt On the Marriage of Asynchronous Many Task Runtimes and Big Data: A Glance Joshua Suetterlein, Joseph Manzano, Andres Marquez and Gunag Gao Exposing data locality in HPC-based systems by using the HDFS backend Jose Rivadeneira, Felix Garcia-Carballeira, Jesus Carretero and Javier Garcia-Blas PufferFish: NUMA-Aware Work-stealing Library using Elastic Tasks Vivek Kumar Design and Study of Elastic Recovery in HPC Applications Kai Keller, Konstantinos Parasyris and Leonardo Bautista Session 5: System Software and Architecture (11:30 AM IST – start time) Accelerating Force-directed Graph Layout with Processing-in-Memory Architecture Ruihao Li, Shuang Song, Qinzhe Wu and Lizy K. John Nonblocking Persistent Software Transactional Memory Alan Beadle, Wentao Cai, Haosen Wen and Michael Scott GPU-FPtuner: Mixed-precision Auto-tuning for Floating-point Applications on GPU Ruidong Gu and Michela Becchi Batched Small Tensor-Matrix Multiplications On GPUs Keke Zhai, Tania Banerjee, Adeesha Wijayasiri and Sanjay Ranka Temporal Based Intelligent LRU Cache Construction Pavan Nittur, Anuradha Kanukotla and Narendra Mutyala Boosting LSTM Performance Through Dynamic Precision Selection Franyell Silfa, Jose Maria Arnau and Antonio González

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IEEE HiPC 2020: Deadlines Extended
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - DEADLINES EXTENDED ********************************************************************* IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HiPC 2020 will be held virtually this year. The registration fees for authors will be reduced, and details regarding the same will be communicated later. We are also workin with the sponsors to offer complimentary access to the online proceedings publication as well as participation in the virtual meeting. Extended Deadlines for HiPC 2020 are as follows: Abstract Registration: July 10, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2020 For more details, please visit: https://hipc.org/ Call for Papers can be found at https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/

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IEEE HiPC 2020: Deadlines Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 28 Jun '20

28 Jun '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - DEADLINES APPROACHING ********************************************************************* IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HiPC 2020 will be held virtually this year. The registration fees for authors will be reduced, and details regarding the same will be communicated later. We are also workin with the sponsors to offer complimentary access to the online proceedings publication as well as participation in the virtual meeting. Upcoming Deadlines for HiPC 2020 are as follows: Abstract Registration: July 1, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: July 8, 2020 For more details, please visit: https://hipc.org/ Call for Papers can be found at https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/

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Updates : HiPC 2020 going virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic - Revised Timeline
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 30 May '20

30 May '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - REVISED TIMELINE ********************************************************************* IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 27th edition of HiPC - HiPC 2020 will be held VIRTUALLY this year. The registration fees for authors will be reduced and details regarding the same will be communicated later. We are also working with the sponsors to offer complimentary access to the online publications as well as the virtual meeting. The updated timeline for HiPC 2020 is as follows: Abstract Registration: July 1, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: July 8, 2020 Rebuttal Period: August 31 - September 2, 2020 Decisions Communicated: September 15, 2020 Deadline for Revised Papers: October 10, 2020 Final Notifications: October 25, 2020 Camera Ready Due: November 10, 2020 For more details, please visit: https://hipc.org/ Call for Papers can be found at https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/

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Call For Workshop Proposals - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2020
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 May '20

09 May '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ********************************************************************* The 27th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2020) will be held in Pune, India, December 16-19, 2020. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, networking, data analytics, and their applications. Held on the first day of the conference, HiPC workshops will typically be half-day events although proposals for full-day workshops will also be considered. Workshops should have contributed papers in their program, and can have invited talks, poster sessions, and panel discussions as part of their technical program. Workshop organizers are responsible for preparing the call for papers to their workshops and also peer-review all submissions in accordance with the conference and IEEE guidelines. Papers accepted for presentation at the HiPC 2020 workshops will be included in the workshops volume of the conference proceedings with a separate ISBN (HiPCW 2020) and will be distributed online. Post-conference, papers presented at the conference and eligible for inclusion will be made available to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Deadlines and Important Dates Workshop proposal submissions: May 20, 2020 Workshop proposal notifications: May 31, 2020 Workshop Website and CFP: June 15, 2020 Workshop organizers should further note the deadlines for their workshop organization to coordinate the proceedings of the main conference: Notification of Workshop papers accepted: October 14th, 2020 Workshop Camera-ready: October 28th, 2020 Final submission of workshop program and materials and full workshop websites online: November 7, 2020 Workshop date: December 16, 2020 Workshop Themes The topics of the proposed workshop should complement those listed in the main conference call for papers. Each workshop should be centered around a coherent theme or topic related to HPC and/or scalable data science; We particularly encourage workshop themes that relate to emerging areas and/or emerging application contexts of societal value (e.g., agriculture, energy, sustainability, workforce development). Workshop proposals will need to clearly state the purpose and the applications of the techniques in the abstract. Workshop proposers will also need to clearly identify how they are going to attract papers and speakers. What/Where to Submit Potential HiPC workshop organizers should submit a workshop proposal that contains the items listed below. The proposal should also specify steps to be taken to develop a high-quality program committee and attract high-quality submissions to place the workshop(s) in a competitive international landscape. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference, i.e., December 16th. Workshops may be proposed as a half-day program, running for 3 hours in the morning or afternoon, or as a full day program. In the case of the latter, organizers should explain how they will attract sufficient participation to develop a full day program of peer-reviewed papers. Proposals to organize a workshop at HiPC 2020 should include: * Description: title; topics to be addressed; goals; relevance and significance to the main conference. * Names, affiliations and contact information for organizers. * Plans for soliciting submissions, and the process for selecting papers to be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings. * Tentative names of Keynote/ invited speakers * Tentative program outline, identifying key elements such as panels, discussion sessions, poster sessions, invited talks, etc. * Tentative list of PC members to be recruited * A detailed timeline of the peer-review process The proposal should not exceed three pages and should be submitted as a pdf file to the HiPC Workshops Chairs at workshops(a)hipc.org. For additional information about organizing an HiPC workshop, see the FAQs sheet on the website. Workshop Co-Chairs Josephine Namayanja, University of Massachusetts, Boston Antonino Tumeo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Call For Papers - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2020
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 16--19 December, 2020 in Pune India https://hipc.org/ PROGRAM CHAIRS HPC: Bora Uçar, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France Data Science: Gagan Agrawal, Augusta University, USA HPC TRACKS Algorithms: Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, USA Applications: Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India and Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Architecture: Biswabandan Panda, IIT Kanpur, India System Software: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy DATA SCIENCE TRACKS Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore and Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China Scalable Systems and Software: Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA HiPC 2020 will be the 27th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. Up to two best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Algorithms. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models). Architecture. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * High performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable and high performance applications for execution on parallel, distributed and accelerated platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing, simulation and visualization applications, graph and irregular applications, data-intensive applications, science/engineering/industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences, etc.); * Methods, algorithms and optimizations for scaling applications on peta- and exa-scale platforms (e.g., co-design of hardware and software, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., GPUs, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); * Application benchmarks and workloads for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). DATA SCIENCE Scalable Algorithms and Analytics. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis; * Case studies, experimental studies and benchmarks for scalable algorithms and analytics; * Scaling and accelerating machine learning, deep learning and computer vision applications. Scalable Systems and Software. This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES (2020) Abstract Submissions : June 8, 2020 Paper Submissions : June 15, 2020 Reviews for Rebuttals: August 4, 2020 Initial Submission Decisions: August 21, 2020 Revisions Due: September 22, 2020 Author Notifications: October 2, 2020 Camera Ready: October 16, 2020 Manuscript Guidelines Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates for details: •LaTex Package (ZIP) – will be linked •Word Package (ZIP) – will be linked Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper, for example in a separate paragraph in the introduction of the paper. The review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper), and that there will be a rebuttal period. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair at the email address below for further information or clarification. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference in person is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2020 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2020. __________________________________________________________________________ HiPC 2020 is co-sponsored by * IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) * HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with: * ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT); * ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH); * IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems; * Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT); * National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).

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Paper Deadline in Less Than 1 Month - Data Science for Future Energy Systems HiPC Workshop 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 23 Aug '19

23 Aug '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper Deadline in Less Than 1 Month - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER An Energy System is defined as a system primarily designed to supply energy services to end users. Such systems form the backbone of modern economy and include power grids, oilfields, heating/cooling systems, etc. The design of efficient, reliable and scalable Energy Systems for the future requires making them smarter and transitioning them into Future Energy Systems via novel data driven solutions built on top of the existing monitoring and control infrastructure. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and encourage discussions regarding novel applications of data science and data analytics techniques in the domain of Energy Systems such as smart (power) grids, smart oilfields, smart heating/cooling systems etc. Data driven techniques enabling transition to Future Energy Systems via improved sustainability and electrification of the energy systems, Uberization of the energy systems, mobility changes due to future energy systems, etc. are solicited. This workshop seeks submissions related to the following topic areas as applicable to the domain of future energy systems: * Discovery of knowledge and insights using data * Data Analytics Applications: Learning, prediction, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, search, mining, etc. * Data management/infrastructure * Data privacy/security * Data driven modeling * Data driven decision making * Data driven techniques enabling energy transition for improved sustainability and electrification * Uberization of energy systems enabling peer-to-peer transactions, minimizing distance between the producer and consumers, user rating system for quality of service, etc. * Mobility changes due to future energy systems MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 20th, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 14th, 2019 Workshop camera-ready: October 28th, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfes2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA Chayan Sarkar, TCS Research, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ram Balachandran, India Charalampos Chelmis, University of Albany, USA Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (organizer), University of Southern California, USA Akshay Uttama Nambi, Microsoft Research, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, USA Laks Raghupati, Shell, India Kiran Sajjanshetty, Voyage Auto Inc., USA Chayan Sarkar (organizer), TCS Research & Innovation, India Ajitesh Srivastava, University of Southern California, USA Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University, USA

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HiPC 2019 Workshops' Paper Deadlines in Less Than 1 Month
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 WORKSHOP PAPER DEADLINES ********************************************************************** The 26th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2019) will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India, during 17-20 December 2019. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops with deadlines to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17th. Please follow the links below for a detailed description and the Call for Papers of each workshop. SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 * Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing (EduHiPC) - https://hipc.org/eduhipc-2019 SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 * Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers - https://hipc.org/bigdata/ * Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - https://hipc.org/dsfes/ * Workshop on Memory and Storage Systems 2019 (WoMSS) - http://hipc.org/womss/ WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA * Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org.

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Call For Papers - 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

*** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) *** Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2019 will feature the 12th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2019 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. High-Performance Computing Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): • New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; • Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); • Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); • Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and • Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high-performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); • Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); • Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); • Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and • Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); • Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); • Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and • Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high-performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); • Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); • Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); • Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; • Software for the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and • Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). Data Science Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); • Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); • Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); • Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and • Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); • Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); • Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); • Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and • Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Aug 19, 2019 > Submission Opens Sep 16, 2019 > Submission Deadline Nov 9, 2019 > Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019 > Symposium ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2019. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1'' margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019. The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. TRAVEL SUPPORT We expect to provide a travel scholarship to at least one student author of each accepted submission from an Indian university, subject to availability of funding. This scholarship will cover partial expenses for attending the conference. Further details on this scholarship and the application process will be provided later. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Ramakrishna Upadrasta, IIT Hyderabad, India SYMPOSIUM VICE-CHAIR Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIIT Guwahati, India CONTACT Contact student_symposium at hipc dot org for more details.

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Call For Papers - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC 2019 Workshop
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** First Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17-20 December 2019 Hyderabad, India CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER An Energy System is defined as a system primarily designed to supply energy services to end users. Such systems form the backbone of modern economy and include power grids, oilfields, heating/cooling systems, etc. The design of efficient, reliable and scalable Energy Systems for the future requires making them smarter and transitioning them into Future Energy Systems via novel data driven solutions built on top of the existing monitoring and control infrastructure. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and encourage discussions regarding novel applications of data science and data analytics techniques in the domain of Energy Systems such as smart (power) grids, smart oilfields, smart heating/cooling systems etc. Data driven techniques enabling transition to Future Energy Systems via improved sustainability and electrification of the energy systems, Uberization of the energy systems, mobility changes due to future energy systems, etc. are solicited. This workshop seeks submissions related to the following topic areas as applicable to the domain of future energy systems: * Discovery of knowledge and insights using data * Data Analytics Applications: Learning, prediction, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, search, mining, etc. * Data management/infrastructure * Data privacy/security * Data driven modeling * Data driven decision making * Data driven techniques enabling energy transition for improved sustainability and electrification * Uberization of energy systems enabling peer-to-peer transactions, minimizing distance between the producer and consumers, user rating system for quality of service, etc. * Mobility changes due to future energy systems MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 20th, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 14th, 2019 Workshop camera-ready: October 28th, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfes2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA Chayan Sarkar, TCS Research & Innovation, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ram Balachandran, India Charalampos Chelmis, University of Albany, USA Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (organizer), University of Southern California, USA Akshay Uttama Nambi, Microsoft Research, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, USA Laks Raghupati, Shell, India Kiran Sajjanshetty, Voyage Auto Inc., USA Chayan Sarkar (organizer), TCS Research & Innovation, India Ajitesh Srivastava, University of Southern California, USA Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University, USA

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Call for Workshop Papers - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ********************************************************************** The 26th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2019) will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India, during 17-20 December 2019. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17th. Please follow the links below for a detailed description and the Call for Papers of each workshop. * Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers - https://hipc.org/bigdata/ * Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - https://hipc.org/dsfes/ * Workshop on Memory and Storage Systems 2019 (WoMSS) - http://hipc.org/womss/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2019 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA * Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org.

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Call for IRUS Session Leads - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR IRUS Session Leads ********************************************************************** BACKGROUND ON CONFERENCE HiPC, Data and Analytics is Asia's premier IEEE international annual conference on computational and data sciences. The 26th edition (https://hipc.org/) of this conference will be held in Hyderabad during December 17-20. BACKGROUND ON SYMPOSIUM Industry Research and User Symposium (IRUS) brings together solution providers and users of HPC, cloud and data platforms, providing a venue where they can share their challenges and successes and discuss relevant technology issues related to computational and data sciences. Previous IRUS sessions* had tremendous participation from conference attendees and included senior speakers from industry like Amazon, Flipkart, Intel, Microsoft, Shell and Xilinx, academia like CERN, IISC and TIFR and start-ups such as Khosla Labs and Forus Health. *PREVIOUS IRUS SESSION LINKS 2018: https://hipc.org/hipc2018/industry-research-and-user-symposium/ 2017: https://hipc.org/hipc2017/industry-research-and-user-symposium/ 2016: https://www.hipc.org/hipc2016/irus.php CALL FOR IRUS SESSION Leads We are looking for Leaders from industry or academia to help put together a great IRUS session on a relevant topic in computational and data sciences. As a session lead, you are responsible to organize an IRUS session (~2 hours) during a suitable slot in the conference duration. You will have freedom on the contents and panelists you wish to invite – you will be supported by the HiPC team in local logistics. WHAT'S THERE FOR YOU? * Opportunity to lead session in an area of your interest within computational and data science * Help shape the agenda amongst leading industry practitioners and academic experts from around the world * Engage with student and young researchers showcase your ideas and develop as a thought leader HOW TO APPLY (LAST DATE: JULY 31, 2019) Drop a line to: Chiranjib Sur (HiPC 2019 Conference General Chair) – sur.chiranjib(a)hipc.org Laks Raghupathi (HiPC 2019 IRUS Chair) – laks.aarthi(a)gmail.com

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Paper Deadline Extended - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 02 Jun '19

02 Jun '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS *** Paper Deadline Extended *** ********************************************************************** 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics December 17-20, 2019, Hyderabad, India https://hipc.org/ KEY DATES: Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 HiPC 2019 Call For Papers HiPC 2019 will be the 26th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. High Performance Computing tracks: Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and evaluation of high performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Design and evaluation of networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences - biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); * Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta- and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and * Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms); Data Science tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Reviews for Rebuttals: Monday, July 29, 2019 Rebuttals due: Monday, August 5, 2019 Initial Submission Decision: Monday, August 19, 2019 Revisions Due: Friday, September 20, 2019 Author Notification: Monday, September 30, 2019 Camera Ready: Monday, October 14, 2019 Manuscript Guidelines Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by the published paper submission deadline. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper. This should be in a separate paragraph in the introduction to the paper. Please note that the review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper). This year we are introducing a two-phase review process, in which the first round of reviews will be made available to the authors for a brief rebuttal. Based on the reviews and the rebuttal, an initial decision will be issued. Papers will be either accepted or rejected or recommended for a second round. Authors of papers recommended for a second round will be allowed to revise the paper to address the comments and suggestions made by the program committee. The revisions will undergo a second round of review before the final notification. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chairs of the respective tracks at their contact email addresses below for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be emailed by September 30, 2019. Camera-ready papers are due by October 14, 2019. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 Journal Special Issue: Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2019 will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PLEASE NOTE: * Authors must register their paper and submit an abstract, typically a paragraph or two, by June 21, 2019 * Authors must then submit full versions of registered papers by June 28, 2019 * All deadlines are end of day ANYWHERE ON EARTH. * Links to EasyChair submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 PROGRAM CHAIRS Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC Tracks: Algorithms: Bora Uçar, CNRS and École normale supérieure de Lyon, France Applications: Alba Cristina M.A. de Melo, University of Brasilia, Brazil Architecture: Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India System Software: Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Data Science Tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA Scalable Systems and Software: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Contact Information * High Performance Computing tracks: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA, ananth(a)wsu.edu * Data Science tracks: George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA, karypis(a)umn.edu ___________________________________________________ HiPC 2019 is co-sponsored by • IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) • HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with • ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) • ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) • FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems • Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) • National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

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Submissions Open - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 14 May '19

14 May '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** We are now accepting submissions for HiPC 2019 via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 The list of topics and the original call for paper can be found below and at the conference website: https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ ********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************** 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics December 17-20, 2019, Hyderabad, India https://hipc.org/ PROGRAM CHAIRS Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC Tracks: Algorithms: Bora Uçar, CNRS and École normale supérieure de Lyon, France Applications: Alba Cristina M.A. de Melo, University of Brasilia, Brazil Architecture: Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India System Software: Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Data Science Tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA Scalable Systems and Software: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA HiPC 2019 Call For Papers HiPC 2019 will be the 26th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. High Performance Computing tracks: Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and evaluation of high performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Design and evaluation of networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences - biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); * Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta- and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and * Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms); Data Science tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: Friday, June 7, 2019 Paper Submission: Friday, June 14, 2019 Reviews for Rebuttals: Monday, July 29, 2019 Rebuttals due: Monday, August 5, 2019 Initial Submission Decision: Monday, August 19, 2019 Revisions Due: Friday, September 20, 2019 Author Notification: Monday, September 30, 2019 Camera Ready: Monday, October 14, 2019 Manuscript Guidelines Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by the published paper submission deadline. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper. This should be in a separate paragraph in the introduction to the paper. Please note that the review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper). This year we are introducing a two-phase review process, in which the first round of reviews will be made available to the authors for a brief rebuttal. Based on the reviews and the rebuttal, an initial decision will be issued. Papers will be either accepted or rejected or recommended for a second round. Authors of papers recommended for a second round will be allowed to revise the paper to address the comments and suggestions made by the program committee. The revisions will undergo a second round of review before the final notification. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chairs of the respective tracks at their contact email addresses below for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be emailed by September 30, 2019. Camera-ready papers are due by October 14, 2019. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 Journal Special Issue: Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2019 will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PLEASE NOTE: * Authors must register their paper and submit an abstract, typically a paragraph or two, by June 7, 2019 * Authors must then submit full versions of registered papers by June 14, 2019 * All deadlines are end of day ANYWHERE ON EARTH. * Links to EasyChair submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 Contact Information * High Performance Computing tracks: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA, ananth(a)wsu.edu * Data Science tracks: George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA, karypis(a)umn.edu ___________________________________________________ HiPC 2019 is co-sponsored by • IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) • HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with • ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) • ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) • FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems • Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) • National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

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OGF31/ISGC Early Registration Deadline - February 28, 2011
by Joel Replogle 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

OGF Community - We are excited to be co-locating OGF31 with the ISGC conference hosted by ASGC in Taipei, Taiwan from March 21-25, 2011. Some important information: The Early Registration Deadline for OGF31/ISGC is February 28, 2011. Registration information is available here: http://www.ogf.org/OGF31/registration.php Hotel booking may be done at the same time as registration, but please be aware that the selected hotels confirmed their rates and availability through March 1st, so please make booking arrangements soon. The event schedule may be found: http://www.ogf.org/OGF31/schedule There are a number of additional workshops/tutorials/events that may be of interest to you taking place just before OGF31 starts, and these may be found on the ISGC site: http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2011/program.html Hope to see you in Taiwan! Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF31 * March 21-25 * Taipei, Taiwan * www.ogf.org/OGF31

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OGF31 Call for Session Proposals extended until 25 January, 2011
by Joel Replogle 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

OGF Community - The OGF31 Call for Session Proposal has been extended until Tuesday, 25 January 2011. Please make session requests and other proposals by this deadline. Call Details: OGF is pleased to partner with the ASGC (Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre) to host OGF31 co-located with ISGC 2011 (International Symposium on Grids and Clouds) in Taipei, Taiwan from March 21-25, 2011. In addition to the ISGC call for papers, OGF is seeking active participation and proposals for sessions that will further explore and develop the state of the art in distributed computing. Topics of interest may include (but are not limited to): * Campus Grids and Clouds * Data Management in Grids and Clouds * Federated Disriibuted Computing Infrastructures * Identity Management and Virtual Organizations * Inter-cloud interoperability and SLA management * Interoperability of Grids and Clouds * Middleware and Interoperability * Networking for Distributed Computing Infrastructures * Performance measurement of Grids and Clouds * Performance of security implementations. * Science Clouds across North America, Europe, and Asia * Grid and Cloud Security * Distributed Desktop Grid and Volunteer Computing Chartered Group sessions, Area Meetings, and Birds of a Feather sessions also may be requested. Important Dates Deadline for workshop, BoF and group session submissions: Tuesday, January 25. Acceptance notification: Friday, January 28. OGF31 Call for Session Proposals: http://www.ogf.org/OGF31/cfp.php Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF31 * March 21-25 * Taipei, Taiwan * www.ogf.org/OGF31

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FYI: IEEE CloudCom 2010 November30-December 3
by Joel Replogle 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010) November 30-December 3, 2010 University Place Hotel and Conference Center IUPUI Campus, Indianapolis, IN Hosted by Indiana University, Pervasive Technology Institute http://2010.cloudcom.org Why attend IEEE CloudCom 2010 in Indianapolis? · Engage with top cloud computing researchers from around the world. Join the best and the brightest working at the leading edge of this exciting and valuable field. · With Indiana University and an IEEE endorsement you know to expect quality. · Exceptional quality at an exceptional value. One registration fee gives you access to: main conference and keynotes; 8 tutorials from industry and academia; 3 workshops; 3 panel discussions; poster, demo and emerging research reception; special entertainment event with live music and a spectacular multimedia art display. Acceptance rate < 25% from 200 submissions for main track · One-day registrations available to allow for your needs and schedule. · Industry leading keynote speakers and panel discussion leaders. · Fast internet, great speakers, good food and special events – the perfect conference! Keynote Speakers Ian T. Foster, Director, CI, Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA Dennis Gannon, Director of Applications for the Cloud Computing, Microsoft Research, WA, USA Kai Hwang, Professor, IEEE Fellow, Director, Internet and Grid Comp. Lab., USC, USA Industry Tutorials MapReduce/Hadoop, Sponsored by Yahoo! Cloud Computing with Windows Azure, Sponsored by Microsoft OpenStack, Sponsored by RackSpace Academic Tutorials FutureGrid Nimbus OpenNebula Sector/Sphere Twister Workshops CPSRT Cloud Privacy, Security, Risk & Trust 2010 Cloud Computing , HCI, & Design: Sustainability and Social Impacts 2010 MAPRED'2010 Panels 1) Cloud Standards with David Bernstein, VP and Special CTO, Cloud Computing, Software Division at Huawei, USA and Stephen Diamond, IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, USA, Craig Lee OGF 2) Adopting Clouds: for your Research or Enterprise? 3) Cloud Security and Privacy: What is new and what needs to be done? http://2010.cloudcom.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF31 * March 21-25 * Taipei, Taiwan * www.ogf.org/OGF31

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OGF30/Grid2010 Advance Registration extended to 30 September 2010
by Joel Replogle 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

All - The Advance Registration period for OGF30/Grid2010 has been extended to Thursday, 30 September, after which the early discount expires and Full Registration rates will apply. Register today! http://www.ogf.org/OGF30/registration.php Come to Brussels for the premier event in Grid, Cloud and distributed computing this fall! OGF30/Grid2010 brings together academic and industry experts in Grid and Cloud from around the world to discuss challenges, research, solutions, best practices and standards for interoperable distributed computing This joint event features engaging keynotes from world-class leaders, workshops on relevant topics, a wealth of research papers, and sessions to further the development of distributed computing standards. The Hotel block will expire 1 October, so please book your hotel right away! Hotel booking at the conference venue is available through the following URL. We appreciate you using the conference hotel for your stay. http://www.ogf.org/OGF30/lodging.php See you in Brussels! Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF30 * October 25-29, 2010 * Brussels * www.ogf.org/OGF30

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OGF30/Grid2010 information; deadlines approaching
by Joel Replogle 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Dear OGF Community - Come to Brussels for the premier event in Grid, Cloud and distributed computing this fall! OGF30/Grid2010 brings together academic and industry experts in Grid and Cloud from around the world to discuss challenges, research, solutions, best practices and standards for interoperable distributed computing This joint event features engaging keynotes from world-class leaders, workshops on relevant topics, a wealth of research papers, and sessions to further the development of distributed computing standards. We are excited about the upcoming OGF30/Grid2010 and wanted to inform you of the upcoming deadlines: This Friday, 17 September 2010 is the deadline for OGF30 session proposals. You are encouraged to submit session proposals in the following topic areas (though not limited to these): • Performance Measurement of Grids and Clouds • Federated Distributed Computing Infrastructure • Inter-Cloud Interoperability and SLA management • Science Clouds across North America, Europe and Asia • Campus Grids and Clouds • Identity Management and Virtual Organizations • Security issues and best practices in Grids and Clouds • Data Management in distributed environments Please make requests using the following URL for workshops, chartered group and BoF sessions: http://www.ogf.org/OGF30/cfp.php Next Friday, 24 September 2010 is the Advanced Registration deadline, after which the cost increases. Register here today: http://www.ogf.org/OGF30/registration.php Hotel booking at the conference venue is available through the following URL. We appreciate you using the conference hotel for your stay. http://www.ogf.org/OGF30/lodging.php See you in Brussels! Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF30 * October 25-29, 2010 * Brussels * www.ogf.org/OGF30

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OGF Connections Newsletter
by Joel Replogle 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

All - Attached is the OGF Connections Newsletter for August, 2010. Please note that the OGF30/Grid2010 Call for Session Proposals, Registration, and Hotel booking are all available at http://www.ogf.org/OGF30. Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF30 * October 25-29, 2010 * Brussels * www.ogf.org/OGF30

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FYI: IEEE CloudCom 2010
by Joel Replogle 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

IEEE CloudCom 2010 – New paper submission deadline, workshops and keynotes. Submit a paper, poster, demo or exhibit and join top researchers in the field of grid and cloud computing November 30-December 3, 2010 for the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. The conference is hosted by Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University and will be held at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel on the campus of IUPUI in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Cloud Computing is one of the most exciting, leading edge fields in technology today. It holds great potential for accelerating scientific research and supporting business and industry. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to engage many of the leading experts in the field of cloud computing. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Aug. 20, 2010 (extended) Poster/Demo/Exhibition deadline: Sept. 15, 2010 PLEASE NOTE: Papers not accepted to the main conference will automatically be considered for the poster session unless declined by the author. http://2010.cloudcom.org/ Keynote Speakers CloudCom 2010 is pleased to welcome three of the leading names in the field of cloud computing research as our keynote speakers: Ian T. Foster, Director, CI, Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA Dennis Gannon, Director of Applications for the Cloud Computing Futures Group, Microsoft Research, WA, USA Kai Hwang, Professor, IEEE Fellow, Director, Internet and Grid Comp. Lab., USC, USA Tutorials Attend high quality tutorials – all included in the conference registration fee. MapReduce/Hadoop Tutorial sponsored by Yahoo! Cloud Computing with Windows Azure Tutorial sponsored by Microsoft Workshops CloudCom 2010 is pleased to offer the following workshops. Paper submission deadlines vary by workshop. Visit the CloudCom web site for deadlines and submission guidelines. International Workshop on Cloud Privacy, Security, Risk & Trust (CPSRT 2010) Cloud Computing , HCI, & Design: Sustainability and Social Impacts First International Workshop on Theory and Practice of MapReduce (MAPRED'2010) The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Quality Assurance (CLOUDit’10) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF30 * October 25-29, 2010 * Brussels * www.ogf.org/OGF30

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OGF Announces New VP for Standards: Dr. Alan Sill
by Joel Replogle 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

Following an open call and selection by community nominated representatives on OGF’s NomCom (http://www.ogf.org/nomcom/) OGF is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Alan Sill to the position of Vice President for Standards. Dr. Sill is a Senior Scientist at Texas Tech University. He has coordinated large-scale development projects for grid and distributed computing for the past decade, including database and distributed data access for high energy physics experiments and coordinating the creation of large-scale, multi-Teraflop systems for computation for such experiments. He was involved in the early stages of the formation of the Open Science Grid and Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE) at Texas Tech University and in distributed computing for the Collider Detector at Fermilab. “I’m delighted to welcome Alan to position of OGF Standards VP” said Steven Newhouse, Chairman of the OGF Board of Directors. “He brings the experience, maturity, and leadership qualities that will make him an effective VP Standards while at the same time injecting a fresh perspective to the work of the standards council.” Alan Sill replaces Chris Smith from Platform Computing who has led the OGF standards activities during his three year term of office. Our thanks to Chris for all his work during his time as VP Standards and to Platform Computing for supporting his work within the OGF community. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF29 * June 20-22, 2010 * Chicago * www.ogf.org/OGF29 OGF30 * October 25-29, 2010 * Brussels * www.ogf.org/OGF30

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OGF29 schedule online, Hotel booking extended (slightly)
by Joel Replogle 28 May '10

28 May '10

All - The OGF29 schedule is online and may be found here: www.ogf.org/OGF29/schedule.php The DoubleTree hotel has extended the cut-off date for OGF's negotiated rate until May 31st. Please book your room by then using the URL listed here: www.ogf.org/OGF29/lodging.php Also, if you wish to attend both OGF29 and HPDC and have experienced difficulty booking the negotiated rate for the entire stay, please contact events(a)ogf.org and we will work with the hotel to resolve the issue. Thanks -- see you in Chicago! Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF29 * June 20-22, 2010 * Chicago * www.ogf.org/OGF29 OGF30 * October 25-29, 2010 * Brussels * www.ogf.org/OGF30

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OGF29 Hotel Block expiring Friday - Reserve Now!
by Joel Replogle 25 May '10

25 May '10

All - OGF29 continues to approach and is now less than a month away. Time is running out to reserve your room in the beautiful DoubleTree Chicago Magnificent Mile Hotel at the discounted rate of $159.00 per night. The special rate expires this Friday, May 29th, so book your room now. Book your room for OGF29 here: http://www.ogf.org/OGF29/lodging.php Additional OGF29 information: http:///www.ogf.org/OGF29 Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, OGF replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org PO Box 1738 T: +1-765-228-9068 Muncie, IN 47308 USA F: +1-815-927-6284 Upcoming Events: OGF29 * June 20-22, 2010 * Chicago * www.ogf.org/OGF29 OGF30 * October 25-29, 2010 * Brussels * www.ogf.org/OGF30

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OGF28 Full Registration deadline: 12 March 2010
by Joel Replogle 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

OGF Community - We're excited that OGF28 is about to begin. It has compelling content and should prove to be a highly productive event. Please note that the deadline for Full Registration on-line is this Friday, 12 March 2010. After that date, all registrations will be On-Site. View http://www.ogf.org/OGF28/registration.php for more information. See you next week in Munich! Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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OGF28 Advanced Registration deadline approaching: February 15, 2010
by Joel Replogle 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

The Advanced Registration deadline for OGF28 is February 15, 2010 and is fast approaching. With the theme of "The Future of Distributed Computing Infrastructure (DCI)", OGF28 features a program consisting of a broad range of topics including Clouds, Green IT, Security, Interoperability, Grids, HPC, and large-scale DCI. Reserve your place today and take advantage of the Advanced Registration rate by visiting: http://www.ogf.org/OGF28/registration.php OGF28 will be March 15-18, 2010 and is hosted by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Munich, Germany. More information is at: http://www.ogf.org/OGF28 The event schedule may be viewed here: http://www.ogf.org/OGF28/schedule.php Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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Registration for OGF28 is now open!
by Joel Replogle 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

All - I'm pleased to announce that registration for OGF28 is now open! OGF28 will be held at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Munich, Germany on March 15-19, 2010. The theme is "The Future of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI)" and will prove to be the premier event relating to DCI, Clouds and Grids in Europe this spring. To register, please visit: http://www.ogf.org/OGF28/registration.php or go directly to the registration site: http://www.interplan.de/reg/2010/OGF10/ See you in Munich! Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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OGF27 Update: One Week To Go
by Joel Replogle 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

OGF 27 UPDATE: ONE WEEK TO GO OGF 27 is co-locating with Summit 09: Partnerships in CI Development in Banff, Canada during October 12 - 16, 2009. The week-long event brings together an international gathering of developers, suppliers, and users who push the capabilities of cloud computing, Web 2.0, advanced networks and other emerging cyberinfrastructure. For more information, please visit http://www.summit09.ca. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND HIGHLIGHTS: Summit 09 Cloud Challenge -- Deadline Extended! Summit 09 is hosting a live cloud challenge and is inviting entries for live demonstrations of the deployment and orchestration of cloud-based services using underlying grid computing infrastructures. For more details on how to enter your cloud demo, click here: http://www.summit09.ca/cloudchallenge Has Your Research Been Transformed by Cyberinfrastructure? Researchers who have seen their work transformed -- either from collaborations made possible, remote instrumentation accessed, or mountains of data rendered intelligible -- are invited to participate on a panel and share their story. If you would like to take part, please email summit09(a)cybera.ca. Opening Reception - Tuesday, October 13 Join us for drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and a chance to mingle and network with fellow Summit 09 participants in the Max Bell Foyer and Lounge from 18:30 - 21:30. Also that evening, Summit 09 will offer a special Banff edition of CloudCamp, hosted by Reuven Cohen, the founder of Cloud Camp, as well as the Unified Cloud Interface Project, and the Cloud Interoperability Forum. This mini- event is an "unconference" where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas and share thoughts in open discussions. Summit 09 Program Now Available Online Visit the Summit 09 website to download the latest draft of the program schedule. All OGF working groups, workshops, BoFs and submitted sessions have been scheduled. For more information, click here: http://www.summit09.ca/program Or view the on-line schedule: http://www.ogf.org/OGF27/schedule.php One Week Checklist With just one week to go, there are some important To Dos you may want to check off your list. Maybe you'd like to check the weather in Banff.....or download a roadmap to The Banff Centre. For all those items and more, visit our Summit 09 One Week Checklist here: http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=a1a046f132&id=21bb671ea5 To register, or for more information on OGF 27 and Summit 09, please visit: http://www.summit09.ca * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Summit 09 is a culmination of three events: OGF 27, IEEE Grid 2009 and the Cybera / CANARIE National Summit, all taking place October 12 - 16, 2009 in Banff, AB, Canada. Summit 09 is pleased to acknowledge its sponsors: Juniper Networks, IBM, AMD, Shaw, DataDirect Networks, ENMAX Envision, iCORE, Alberta Council of Technologies, Calgary Council for Advanced Technologies, the Institute for Space Imaging Science (ISIS), and Europe-China Grid InterNetworking. Summit 09 Media Partners include: Backbone Magazine, HPCwire, iSGTW and TechVibes. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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OGF Newsletter, September 2009
by Joel Replogle 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

OGF Community - The most recent OGF newsletter is attached, highlighting the upcoming event: OGF27 in Banff, Canada October 15-19, 2009. The current schedule may be found at: http://www.ogf.org/OGF27/schedule.php?matrix See you in Banff! Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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OGF 27 Early Bird Registration Extended to Sept 8
by Joel Replogle 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

OGF 27 Early Bird Registration Extended to Sept 8 OGF 27 is co-locating with Summit 09: Partnerships in CI Development in Banff, Canada during October 12 - 16, 2009. The week-long event brings together an international gathering of developers, suppliers, and users who push the capabilities of cloud computing, Web 2.0, advanced networks and other emerging cyberinfrastructure. For more information, please visit http://www.summit09.ca. PROGRAM SCHEDULE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE As the 2009 Summit has garnered extensive interest from members of the global cyberinfrastructure community, we are continuing to confirm sponsors and receive requests from numerous other organizations that wish to locate their events in conjunction with the Summit. As such, we have been unable to publish the program over the last few weeks. However, at this time, we are pleased to publish the program and announce that we will extend the Summit 09 Early Bird Registration Discount to September 8 to allow prospective registrants to review the program without being disqualified for the Early Bird rate. To view the event schedule, please visit the Summit 09 Program page. TO REGISTER: http://www.summit09.ca/registration QUESTIONS? Please email summit09(a)cybera.ca or visit the Summit 09 website. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Summit 09 is a culmination of three events: OGF 27, IEEE Grid 2009 and the Cybera / CANARIE National Summit, all taking place October 12 - 16, 2009 in Banff, AB, Canada. Summit 09 is pleased to acknowledge its sponsors: Juniper Networks, IBM, DataDirect Networks, ENMAX Envision, iCORE, Alberta Council of Technologies, and the Institute for Space Imaging Science (ISIS). Summit 09 Media Partners include: Backbone Magazine, HPCwire, iSGTW and TechVibes. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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See OGF at CloudWorld booth 431
by Joel Replogle 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

OGF is participating in the joint conference of CloudWorld, Next Generation Data Center (NGDC), and OpenSource World going on now, August 12-13, 2009 in San Francisco, CA, USA. OGF's VP of Standards, Chris Smith, is presenting a talk Thursday August 13, from 9:15am - 10:00am in room 3004: From Grid to Cloud: Leveraging Distributed Computing Technologies in Moving to the Cloud There are many challenges in the minds of enterprise CIO's about the opportunities that cloud presents. On the one hand, the opportunity to flex resources to meet demand, particularly with pay as you go, addresses the challenge of sizing and capital expenditure for occasional events. Another class of challenge is the security and management of key corporate resources, for audit and compliance purposes. So why would the typical CIO be interested in throwing caution to the wind with a third party service provider? This session will feature discussion of the potential for grid middleware to provide a vehicle for the development of private clouds, leveraging existing resources and infrastructure with the potential for extending services into the cloud using commercial suppliers. Much work has been done in the grid middleware community to demonstrate the viability of grid as an application, an extensible platform and an infrastructure in the cloud, thus providing an effective "on ramp" to the cloud for the existing user base. Visit us at booth 431 in the Solutions Showcase! Why is OGF at the joint CloudWorld/NGDC/OpenSource World conference? * To promote OGF's specifications and best practices * To inform conference attendees of OGF's mission and invite participation * To promote OGF's Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working group * OGF's Open Forum and Open Standards are a natural fit to many attendees * To promote OGF's upcoming events * To meet and network with organizations interested in cloud and distributed technologies. Conference website: http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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OGF GridConnections June 2009
by Joel Replogle 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

All - Attached is the June, 2009 issue of GridConnections. The online version is at: http://www.ogf.org/News/Monthly/Newsletter_2009-06.php Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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OGF26 CFP and Advance Registration deadlines extended
by Joel Replogle 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

OGF Community - The deadline for the OGF26 Call for Session Proposals has been extended until April 20, 2009. This date is fast approaching, so please submit workshop and group session proposals by the end of day on April 20 via this URL: http://www.ogf.org/OGF26/cfp.php The deadline for Advance Registration has also been extended to April 27. Register online here: http://www.ogf.org/OGF26/registration.php See you in Chapel Hill! Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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GridConnections Newsletter for March 2009
by Joel Replogle 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

OGF Community - Please find attached the latest OGF GridConnections newsletter highlighting OGF25 activities and the new Production Grid Infrastructure. GridConnections is also returning to its previous monthly publication schedule. The newsletter may be found online at: http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews_mar09.php Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Executive Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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OGF25 Call for Session Proposals - EGEE User Forum/OGF25 & OGF-Europe's 2nd Int'l Event
by Joel Replogle 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

EGEE User Forum / OGF25 & OGF-Europe's 2nd International Event 2-6 March 2009, Catania, Italy (in the region of Sicily) Call for Session Proposals for the Joint Program & Tutorials - http:// www.ogf.org/OGF25/cfp.php "With grids enabling major scientific collaborations, the implications of green IT for data centers, and the enthusiasm of the IT industry for cloud computing, distributed computing is in a challenging phase of its evolution. Come to Catania to interact with the EGEE and OGF communities, and learn about these topics and more." -Martin Walker, Event Program Chair EGEE (http://www.eu-egee.org) OGF (http://www.ogf.org) and OGF- Europe (http://www.ogfeurope.org) invite you to submit session proposals for one of this year’s major distributed computing events, 2-6 June 2009 in Catania, Italy. The deadline to submit session proposals for the joint program is: 15 December 2008, notification will be provided by 15 January 2009. Submit your session proposal at http://www.ogf.org/OGF25/cfp.php The Program Committee is inviting session proposals for the joint program in the following topics/thematic areas: * Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage * Digital Media and Digital Repositories * Collaborative Working Environments * Future Emerging Technologies * Green IT * Grids & Cloud Computing (interoperability, convergence, SOA aspects, user experiences, sustainability, industry analyst perspective) * Grid (issues, applications and technologies) * Networked, Smart and Virtual Organizations * Networking Topics (GLIF workshop, standards) * OGF specs: status and experience with implementations (e.g. HPC Basic Profile,..) * Open Source Technologies and Applications * Security and Identity Management * Software development for distributed computing Additionally, OGF and OGF-Europe are accepting proposals for multiple half-day or full-day tutorials with a hands-on focus and designed to enhance technology skills. Tutorial topics may include: * developing grid services * deploying grid tools * building grid applications * managing grid infrastructures * and other topics where skills can be taught and transferred to tutorial participants. OGF Chartered Group sessions and BoFs may also be requested. For more information on the event, please visit http://www.ogf.org/ OGF25 or http://www.ogfeurope.eu/egeeufogf25 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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Nominations sought for OGF Enterprise VP
by Joel Replogle 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

All - On behalf of OGF President Craig Lee: Robert Fogel's term as VP of Enterprise has come to a close and we are making an open call for nominations for this position. The VP of Enterprise is responsible for promoting all effective distributed computing technologies in the enterprise and other industrial domains. This person will work with the Area Directors and other leaders in OGF's Enterprise Function to engage various industry verticals, organize workshops at both OGF events and other venues, comprehend industry requirements, and promote the adoption of OGF standards. Duration of term, typically three years, is negotiable. This call will close 10 October, 2008. Nominations may be made via the following web form: http://www.ogf.org/nomcom/nomination.php We would like to thank Robert Fogel for his service as the VP of Enterprise and express our best wishes for his future endeavors. Thanks, Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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OGF24 CFP and Advanced Registration Dates Extended to August 8, 2008
by Joel Replogle 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

There is still time to submit session proposals for OGF24 to be held in Singapore from September 15-19, 2008! The dates for both the Call for Participation and Advanced Registration for OGF24 have been extended to August 8, 2008. Please be aware, however, that lodging options are filling up quickly due to an event happening after OGF24 (a Formula One race), so book your hotel as soon as possible. Call for Participation: http://www.ogf.org/OGF24/cfp.php Registration Information: http://www.ogf.org/OGF24/registration.php Lodging Information: http://www.ogf.org/OGF24/lodging.php OGF24 will provide an excellent opportunity to engage with the Grid and Applied Distributed Computing communities in the Asia/Pacific region. OGF24 is hosted by the Singapore Grid Forum and co-located with GridAsia 2008. See you in Singapore! Joel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Replogle Director, Open Grid Forum replogle(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org

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July 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

The July 2008 GridConnections newsletter is now available. Open the attached document or follow http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_newsletter2.php to view. In this issue: -OGF Updates Statement of Mission -OGF23 in Review -OGF-Europe Feature -Looking Ahead: OGF24 -Member Announcements -Upcoming Events

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OGF24 - Important Information
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

The 24th Open Grid Forum - OGF24 Singapore September 15-19, 2008 After successful events in the US and Europe, OGF returns to Asia-Pacific for OGF24 in beautiful Singapore. Co-located with the GridAsia 2008 event, and hosted by Singapore Grid Forum, OGF24 will offer a unique opportunity for distributed computing experts, builders, and users to meet with OGF's global community to discuss emerging trends and success stories of grid deployments, and collaborate on standards. In addition to high-profile keynote speakers, participants can expect a wide variety of program content ranging from hot technologies like cloud and virtualization to practical uses of grids in scientific and industrial settings. A commercial exhibition will also be an important part of this multi-faceted event. Participants will learn about products and services and see demonstrations of successful projects that have leveraged OGF technologies and standards. Contact us for more information on sponsorship and exhibition opportunities. Hotel accommodations: Sleeping rooms must be reserved by mid-July. See http://www.ogf.org/OGF24/lodging.php Due to other high-profile events in Singapore immediately following the conference, attendees are highly encouraged to make reservations as quickly as possible. Shuttle service will be provided to the meeting location from all OGF-recommended hotels. Call for Participation: Session proposals are being accepted until July 25. See http://www.ogf.org/OGF24/cfp.php Registration: Advance registration is available until July 25. See http://www.ogf.org/OGF24/registration.php Sponsorship opportunities: A variety of sponsorship opportunities are available for the event. Contact wulf(a)ogf.org Questions: Please contact khamilton(a)ogf.org with any questions.

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June 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 29 May '08

29 May '08

The June 08 GridConnections newsletter is here. Please open the attached document to view the newsletter. In this Issue: - OGF23 Show Special - Welcome New Organizational Member - UNICORE - Now Accepting At-Large Board of Director Nominations - Documents Update: Documents in Public Comment - Upcoming Events: OGF24, 25 26 & 27 and eScience 08 Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677

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May 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 01 May '08

01 May '08

The May 08 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_newsletter.php to view the newsletter. In this Issue: - OGF23 Preview - OGF23 On-line Program Schedule Now Available! - Important OGF23 Deadlines - Welcome New Organizational Member Cybera - Documents Update: Newly Published Documents and Documents in Public Comment - Upcoming Events: OGF23 & 24, Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference, GCC08 and eScience 08 - Newsletter Contributors Needed Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677

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April 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

The April 08 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_newsletter.php to view the newsletter. In this Issue: * Stakeholder Survey Q&A * OGF22 Reports: Cloud Systems BoF and OGC Workshop * OGF23 Sneak Preview * Important OGF23 Deadlines * OGF at Street Grid 2008 * Documents Update: New Documents in Public Comment * Upcoming Events: OGF23 & 24, INGRID 08, Street Grid 2008, and Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference * Newsletter Contributors Needed Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677

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Upcoming OGF Event in Barcelona
by Steve Crumb 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

** Apologies to any who receive multiple copies of this note ** The benefits of deploying grid and related technologies in a broad spectrum of IT environments continue to grow and evolve. Researchers and scientists in both academic and commercial settings are using Grids to scale their compute and data capabilities while enhancing their ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries. Commercial organizations are finding that grids are "mission critical" to enabling business agility in a shared, service-oriented and increasingly virtualized infrastructure. These and many other uses of grid technologies will be examined in detail at the upcoming OGF23 event (http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/) in Barcelona, Spain on 2-6 June. OGF23 is the first event organized by the EU-funded project OGF-Europe, which is chartered with mobilizing and integrating the EU community on grid standards and best practices. The project will use OGF23 to launch its tutorial series and its initiatives on Digital Repositories and national and international grid interoperation. Grid case studies will be presented through the co-location of the EU-funded BEinGRID project's Industry Days event (3-5 June) at OGF23. Results and demonstrations of over 15 different "experiments" with grids in commercial sectors will be presented. In parallel to these commercial activities, OGF23 will feature several workshops on scientific uses of grids and other emerging technologies such as virtualization and clouds. In addition, an important part of this multi-faceted event will be the commercial exhibition where Europe-based projects and vendors will showcase their latest Grid solutions. Last and certainly not least, participants will have a great program with a variety of sessions to choose from including: . Keynote talks from IT and Grid thought leaders . Demonstrations of OGF specifications in action . Best practice sessions where today's grid deployment solutions are identified . Standards development working sessions . Numerous open call sessions driven by the latest needs identified by the community Advanced registration is now open so visit <http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/registration.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/registration.php to obtain the lowest registration fee. The program committee is still receiving content proposals until April 11 at: <http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php. June is a busy time in Barcelona so make sure you reserve your hotel soon at: http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/lodging.php. If you are interested in exhibiting or sponsoring, visit http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/sponsor.php. We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona! Steve Crumb Executive Director, Open Grid Forum scrumb(a)ogf.org +1 312-895-5931 (office) +1 630-915-3324 (cell)

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CFP: OGF Community Workshop on Access Paradigms
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Call for Participation: OGF Community Workshop on Access Paradigms 14th & 15th April 2008, University of Virginia, Charlottesville Organizers: Steven Newhouse, Andrew Grimshaw, Hiro Kishimoto & Ellen Stokes As OGF's efforts to standardize the lower service and system level of Grid resources starts to bear fruit, we feel it is time to reconnect that work with the original driving force, the OGF user community, their software environments and their use cases. We are holding a workshop to consolidate these use cases and features of these software environments, in order to better understand how users are accessing this lower-level service infrastructure so as to meet their semantic and syntactic application level requirements. The workshop will be held at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville on the 14th & 15th April 2008. The workshop will build upon work that has previously taken place within the OGSA-WG, the Enterprise Grid Requirements RG, the SAGA-WG and other groups within the OGF. Details The stakeholder survey, the results of which were presented at OGF 22, highlighted how important it is that OGF reconnects with its community. Understanding how the OGF community is currently using or attempting to use, Grid and related technologies is a vital first step in driving the adoption of OGF's emerging specifications and in identifying gaps where future specifications are needed. To improve our understanding of current and future uses of technology within the OGF community, we are starting a series of workshops to solicit new and review existing application use cases from this community. The results of which will be reported back to the OGF community in order to establish how representative these use cases are of the whole community. We are not being restrictive as to the scope of the use cases. We wish to capture end to end scenarios as to how Grid technology (in its broadest definition) is being used. That will help us to map the respective requirements to the existing OGF standards, and will allow us to identify gaps and overlaps. We expect these use cases to encompass a variety of users (applied scientists, system administrator, application developers, etc.) using diverse technologies (portals, command line interfaces, graphical environments, clouds, etc.) across deployments in academia and the enterprise, and within any domain. Due to the size of the facilities at the University of Virginia, the site of the first meeting, the number of participants may have to be limited. We will, however, accept use cases from people who cannot make the meeting in person. The results from this meeting will be presented at a workshop at OGF 23 in Barcelona, which will also provide an opportunity for further use cases to be presented. Participants should expect to present their use case(s) to according to a defined structure, a template of which will be circulated before the meeting. If you are interested in attending this meeting, or providing a use case, please send an email to the organizers at usecase-workshop(a)ogf.org stating: Your Name, Your Organisation, Use Case Title(s) & Brief Description of each use case. Participants will be notified around 24th March 2008 and sent a use case template which we would like them to fill out before the meeting.

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March 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

The March 08 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?mar08 to view the newsletter. In this Issue: *OGF22 Report --Tiger Team Stakeholder Analysis and Results --Keynotes --Pharma/Life Sciences Workshop --Financial Services Workshop --Additional Reports *OGF-Europe Q&A with Silvana Muscella and Steve Crumb *Documents Update - Newly Published Documents and Documents in Public Comment *Call For Submissions for OGF Special Journal Issue *OGF In The News *Upcoming Events - OGF23 & 24, INGRID 08 and More *Newsletter Contributors Needed *Please Renew your OGF Membership for 2008 Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677

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OGF23 Call for Participation
by Steve Crumb 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Apologies to any who receive multiple copies of this call. OGF23/OGF-Europe Call for Participation Session proposals are being accepted through 11 April, 2008 for OGF23, OGF-Europe's first international event, co-hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (http://www.bsc.es/) in Barcelona, Spain, June 2-6, 2008. OGF Event Programs seek to strengthen existing industrial and eScience communities within OGF, provide a forum to foster new relationships and collaborations based on common interests, and develop best practices and technical specifications related to distributed systems and grids. With the launch of the EU-funded, OGF-Europe project (http://www.ogfeurope.eu) topic-specific community outreach seminars emphasizing best practices, workshops analyzing grid user requirements, and tutorials transferring practical skills will take place as part of this event. Additionally, the BEinGRID project ( <http://www.beingrid.com/> http://www.beingrid.com) will co-locate its Industry Days event where updates and demonstrations of eighteen business experiments with grids will be presented. More details on the call for participation and an online submission form may be found at: <http://ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php> http://ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php. In addition to OGF's chartered groups and Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, the Program Committee is soliciting proposals for content that support its mission of accelerating grid adoption in both research and industry. While the Program Committee will consider all proposed content related to grid technology and usage, they are particularly seeking content related to the following topics: OGF Specification Adoption OGF23 will continue OGF's emphasis on grid specification adoption with a multi-session track showcasing implementations of OGF specifications. Demonstrations and implementation experiences are encouraged as part of these sessions. Digital Repositories Under the remit of the OGF-Europe project, funded by the European Commission, OGF-Europe will hold a Community Outreach Seminar that explores how digital repositories in research, government, and commercial settings are successful leveraging grid technologies and infrastructures. Data Management in a Grid Environment As a follow-up to the full-day workshop held at OGF22 on data movement and management, OGF is soliciting further proposals for sessions that discuss practical approaches and best practices around managing data in either an eScience or a commercial setting. Best Practices In addition to developing grid specifications that lead to interoperable grid software, OGF also produces Best Practice documents that define a particular challenge found in deploying or managing grids and grid applications and then suggest a functional solution (e.g., practice) that solves the identified challenge. Related Community Content As with traditional OGF event programs, the OGF23 Program Committee welcomes submissions of all types (case studies, technology updates, panels, tutorials, etc.). Individuals or organizations proposing workshops will contribute to a publishable "Post-Event report" compiled by OGF-Europe and distributed to major stakeholders giving an overview summary report of the outcomes and findings of the workshop. In addition to the explicit solicitations above, additional topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Achieving scalability and availability in a grid environment * Application development/deployment in a grid environment * Earth modeling and geospatial applications using grids * High Performance Technical Computing and grids * Virtualization, cloud computing, and grids * Exploiting grid technologies for inter-organizational collaborations * Simplifying management complexity of grids * Small-medium enterprise (SME) adoption of grids * Technology Enhanced Learning & Virtual Learning Tools * Digital Content & Digital Rights Management - Applications & Technologies * Medical applications using grids * Telecommunications & Optical Networks * Networked and Virtual Organizations * Collaborative Working Environments * Transportation & grids * Energy & grids Tutorials OGF and OGF-Europe is soliciting proposals for multiple half-day or full-day tutorials, which differ from workshops and other community content in that they are extremely hands-on activities with a clear expectation of knowledge and skill transfer. Tutorial topics may include: developing grid services; deploying grid tools; building grid applications; managing grid infrastructures; and other topics where skills can be taught and transferred to tutorial participants. Tutorials may also be targeted to decision makers such as managers or architects exploring grid technologies for the first time. In this case, a tutorial may include overviews of benefits, costs of deployment, timeframes and manpower requirements, and other useful information for organizations wishing to leverage grids. Online Submission Site ( <http://ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php> http://ogf.org/OGF23/cfp.php) is available from 10 March through 11 April, 2008. The Call for Participation submission deadline is 11 April, 2008. Notifications will be sent by 21 April, 2008. Program Committee Wolfgang Gentzsch (Chair), D-Grid, DE Kento Aida, National Institute of Informatics JP Robert Fogel, Intel, US Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, US Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft, US Matti Heikkurinen, Emergence Tech, The e-Infrastructures Reflection Group Support Programme 2 , FI Rajkumar Buyya, U of Melbourne, AU Domenico Laforenza, Italian National Research Council, Institute of Information Science and Technology, IT Erwin Laure, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE), CH Sarah Pearce, Queen Mary University London, GridTalk, UK Morris Riedel, Forschungszentrum-Juelich, DE Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - LNCC, BR Yoshio Tanaka, National Institute for Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), JP Lee Hing Yan, NGO (National Grid Office) Singapore For OGF23 Registration and Lodging information please visit: http://www.ogf.org/OGF23. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Open Grid Forum scrumb(a)ogf.org +1 312-895-5931 (office) +1 630-915-3324 (cell)

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OGF22 Registration Discount Period Closes This Friday
by John Ehrig 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

The deadline for discounted event registration and hotel reservations is this Friday, February 8. After this date, participants will pay full event registration rates and hotel reservations under OGF's discounted rate ($129) will only be issued based on availability. Register now to take advantage of these discounted rates! Event Registration: http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/registration.php Hotel Reservations: http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/lodging.php You should not miss out on this event. The jam-packed program includes: * Keynote presentations from Charlie Catlett, CIO of Argonne National Laboratory; Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus of the IBM Academy; and Addison Snell, Vice-President of Tabor Research * Half day Cloud Systems Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session that will set the current cloud scene and review options for OGF activities * Two day Specification Adoption track that will feature demonstrations of many OGF standards * Dozens of chartered group and community sessions and activities * Full day "Enabling the Next Generation IT Infrastructure" track featuring presentations and case studies on the use of Grid in the IT data center and Grid and Virtualization * Half day workshops focused on the challenges and opportunities facing the Financial Services and Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Life Sciences industries * One day Data Management and Movement workshop where thought leaders in the data area will address key Grid data management concerns * Numerous networking and social activities Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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February 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

The February 08 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_newsletter.php to view the newsletter. In this month's issue: * Breaking News - Irving Wladawsky-Berger Keynote Added to OGF22 Program * OGF Launches Thought Leadership Series * GLUE Q&A with Working Group Co-chair Sergio Andreozzi *** Special Insert - OGF22 Session Previews *** * OGF22 Program Updates * Welcome New Organizational Members MIMOS and Sybase * Call For Submissions for OGF Special Journal Issue * Improved OGF Website Launched * Documents Update - New Documents in Public Comment * Upcoming Events - OGF22, 23 & 24, INGRID 08 and More * Newsletter Contributors Needed * Please Renew your OGF Membership for 2008 Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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OGF22 Keynote Update & Upcoming Deadlines
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

OGF22 KEYNOTE UPDATE In addition to keynotes by Charlie Catlett (Tuesday morning) and Addison Snell (Thursday morning), OGF is pleased to announce the addition of Irving Wladawsky-Berger to its roster of distinguished OGF22 keynotes. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus of the IBM Academy, will present "Cloud Computing, Grids and the upcoming Cambrian Explosion in IT" immediately following lunch on Wednesday. Irving is well known for his early leadership of internet technologies, Linux and Grids and was an early contributor to GGF. REGISTRATION AND HOUSING The deadline for Full Registration and hotel reservations is next Friday, February 8. After this date, registration fees will increase to the 'On-Site' rates and hotel reservations under OGF's discounted rate will only be issued based on availability. Register now to take advantage of these discounted rates! *Registration is available online or via fax: http://ogf.org/OGF22/registration.php. *Hotel Reservations can be made by calling the hotel directly (be sure to reference 'OGF22') or online via http://ogf.org/OGF22/lodging.php. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Sponsorship opportunities are still available for OGF22, which will be the only OGF event held in the US in 2008. Sponsoring OGF events provides numerous opportunities for your organization to gain greater visibility and recognition as a Grid leader in our global community. Please review the sponsor prospectus at http://ogf.org/OGF22/sponsor.php and contact Steve Crumb (scrumb(a)ogf.org) to take advantage of these opportunities.

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OGF22 Community Program Now Available...Advanced Registration Deadline Extended
by John Ehrig 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Dear OGF Members and Participants, The preliminary program for OGF22 (Cambridge, MA 25-29 February) is now available on-line at www.ogf.org/OGF22/schedule.php. Group sessions (see below) will be added to the schedule next week. To give you the chance to review the exciting and informative community program we have planned, the advanced registration discount period has been extended to Friday, 1/18. Please register by then to obtain the best rate at http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/registration.php. OGF achieved major milestones in 2007 with the announcement of product implementations of the HPC Profile and demonstrations of many other OGF standards. With that in mind, we have designed the OGF22 program to build on this momentum and to make significant additional progress throughout 2008 toward our mission of ensuring the widespread adoption of Grids. OGF22 Program Highlights include: * A two day Specification Adoption track that will feature sessions covering the HPC Profile, Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA), Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA), Network Measurements/Network Mark-up Language, and OGSA Authorization standards as well as implementation presentations from Grid Interoperation Now (GIN), OMII-Europe, and UNICORE. * Keynote presentations from Charlie Catlett, CIO of Argonne National Laboratory, Craig Lee, OGF President, and other Grid luminaries to be announced. * Demonstrations from many of the Specification Adoption presenters at the welcome reception. * Cloud Systems BoF that will set the current cloud scene and review options for OGF activities in this emerging area that has recently garnered substantial interest. * A full day "Enabling the Next Generation IT Infrastructure" program featuring presentations and case studies on the use of Grid in the IT data center and Grid and Virtualization applications. Presentations are planned by leading IT vendors and Grid users including VMware, Intel, Platform Computing, SAS, CA, Data Synapse and many others. * Half day workshops focused on the challenges and opportunities facing the Financial Services and Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Life Sciences industries as they continue to deploy leading edge Grid solutions. Case studies and presentations are planned by representatives from major financial services, pharmaceutical, and life sciences organizations. * A one day Data Management and Movement workshop where thought leaders in the data area will address key Grid data management concerns, with a focus on file system and data movement. * Additional community driven content including: + Collaboration workshop with the Open Geospatial Consortium + Workshop for Grid Identity Providers + Globus GridWay tutorial + Grid Best Practices + Grid Requirements Gathering + Globus Software User Experiences Workshop * The current list of Chartered Group that have requested sessions include: + Grid Scheduling Architecture RG + Preservation Environments RG + Grid Storage Management WG + OGSA Authorization WG + Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment RG + OGSA Resource Selection Services WG + Usage Record WG + GridRPC WG + Simple API for Grid Applications Core WG + Grid Information Retrieval WG + Reference Model WG + Network Mark-up Language Working Group + Info Dissemination WG + Particle and Nuclear Physics Applications RG + Workflow Management RG + Astronomy Applications RG + OGSA-Data WG + Education and Training CG + Grid High-Performance Networking RG + OGSA Data Movement Interface WG OGF has secured a block of sleeping rooms at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge (meeting location) at a special rate of $129 for single or double occupancy. Reservations must be made on or before February 8, 2008, to receive the discounted rate. Reservations can be made by calling the hotel directly (be sure to reference 'OGF22') or online at http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/lodging.php Register now and save http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/registration.php We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge! John Ehrig OGF Program Manager (925) 275-6677 www.ogf.org

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January 08 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

The January 08 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_newsletter.php to view the newsletter. In this month's issue: * Message from Craig Lee, OGF President * SC07 Report - OGF Grid Remote Call Procedure Demonstration * SC07 Report - Internet2 and Collaborators Demonstrate OGF Standards * OGF22 Update - Advanced Registration Closing/Preliminary Program and More * Documents Update - Recently Published Documents and Documents in Public Comment * Upcoming Events - OGF22, 23 & 24, INGRID 08 and More * Newsletter Contributors Needed * Please Renew your OGF Membership for 2008 Happy New Year, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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Important OGF22 Information
by John Ehrig 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

OGF22, taking place February 25-29 in Cambridge, Massachusetts will feature a wide variety of new and exciting content. Please see the below important information and deadlines for this event. 1. Registration 2. Preliminary Program 3. Hotel Information 4. Student Scholarships 5. Group Chair Scheduling 6. Sponsorships 1. REGISTRATION Advanced registration for OGF22 will close January 11. Register now to save! http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/registration.php 2. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM * Keynote Sessions Charlie Catlett will make the Tuesday (2/26) morning keynote address. Charlie founded the Global Grid Forum (predecessor to OGF) and is currently the CIO of Argonne National Laboratory, Director of Argonne's Computing and Information Systems Division, and a Senior Fellow at the Argonne/University of Chicago Computation Institute. As CIO of Argonne, Charlie will bring unique perspectives on operating a world-class data center while providing leading-edge technology solutions to computational scientists. Other keynote speakers are in being lined up. Watch for further announcements as their availability is confirmed. * OGF Chartered Groups And BoFs - Monday, February 25 through Friday, February 29 Activities are scheduled throughout the entire week where many of OGF's chartered groups will meet to make further progress on their work. In addition, the latest hot topic in distributed computing - "Cloud Systems" and how it may or may not impact Grids will be tackled in a special BoF session. * OGF Specification Adoption Track and Demonstration Session - Monday, February 25 and Tuesday, February 26 Many OGF working groups have recently demonstrated interoperability of their specifications. These significant accomplishments illustrate how much of the work of OGF is shifting from developing specifications to seeing specifications being used and adopted into products. This multi-session track will feature contributions from developers and users showcasing their work implementing OGF specifications. In addition, live demonstrations will take place during the welcome reception on Monday evening. * Workshops OGF22 will feature a number of interesting workshops that will address a variety of important topics in Grid: a) Enterprise Adoption Workshop - Tuesday, February 26 This full day workshop - "Enabling the Next Generation IT Infrastructure" will focus on putting Grid in the context of the distributed computing infrastructure, including virtualization, service-oriented architecture, web services and next-generation networks. Emphasis will be on solving business problems and meeting business needs, with a focus on Applications On-boarding and Managing Infrastructure. Presentations and case studies are expected from representatives from the 451 Group, VMware, Intel, SAS, Platform Computing, DataSynapse and others that will show a variety of areas that can be addressed by Grid in practical and achievable ways. b) Financial Services Workshop - Wednesday, February 27 The financial services industry is one of the early adopters, and successful users, of Grid technology. As the technology matures, new (and old) issues emerge like expanding grids to support transactional workloads, data management and movement, and putting policies in place for charging and tracking usage. Presentations and case studies that describe the emerging issues the financial services industry is now facing in Grid will be featured in this half day workshop. c) Pharma/Life Sciences Workshop - Wednesday, February 27 The pharmaceutical industry and life sciences in general have begun to depend on in silico experiments as critical elements in the path to discovery. This has enabled exploration that is only limited by their ability to access sufficient computing resources and to store and manage the resultant mountain of data. Presentations and case studies from those that have turned to Grid-based solutions to meet these needs will be featured in this half day workshop. d) Data Management Workshop - Thursday, February 28 This full day workshop, co-hosted by OGF and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), will address data management challenges with a focus on file system and data movement. We will also explore potential synergies and common areas between OGF and SNIA. * Other Community Content - Monday, February 25 through Thursday, February 28 Sessions from the greater Grid community covering numerous topics and a variety of subjects will also be presented. These include workshops, tutorials, BoFs and presentations on marketing, education in emerging/developing countries, Grid Identity Providers, GridWay, and other topics. 3. HOTEL INFORMATION OGF has secured a block of sleeping rooms at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge (meeting location) at a special rate of $129 for single or double occupancy. Reservations must be made on or before February 8, 2008, to receive the discounted rate. Reservations can be made by calling the hotel directly (be sure to reference 'OGF22') or online via http://ogf.org/OGF22/lodging.php. 4. STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS A limited number of student scholarships are available for qualifying students. Hosted by OGF and CoreGRID, the OGF22 student scholarship program provides a unique opportunity for students to participate in OGF program sessions and group sessions as well as network with distinguished community participants and leaders. Application details and eligibility requirements can be found at http://ogf.org/OGF22/students.php. 5. GROUP CHAIR SCHEDULING OGF Group Chair session scheduling will remain open until January 11. Session scheduling and document details along with a link to the online session request site can be accessed via http://ogf.org/OGF22/chairinfo.php. 6. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Sponsorship opportunities for OGF22 include Display Tables, Welcome Reception, Chair Appreciation Night, OGF Co-branded Promotional Item, Wireless, Lunches and Breaks, and Badge Lanyard. By sponsoring OGF22 your organization will gain greater visibility and recognition as a Grid thought leader in our global community. This will be our only OGF event in the USA for all of 2008, so please strongly consider sponsoring if you are interested in reaching this audience. The sponsorship prospectus provides additional information http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/sponsor.php See you in Cambridge! Register today http://www.ogf.org/OGF22/registration.php Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org

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OGF22 Deadlines Approaching
by Julie Wulf-Knoerzer 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

1. Call For Participation 2. Registration 3. Hotel Reservations 4. Student Scholarships 5. Group Chair Scheduling 6. Sponsorship Opportunities ++++ 1. OGF22 Call For Participation The OGF22 CFP deadline is tomorrow, December 21. As with previous OGF events, we are soliciting proposals for content that supports our mission of accelerating grid adoption in both research and industry. While all proposed content related to grid technology and usage is welcome, content related to the following topics is being particularly sought: -OGF Specification Adoption (aimed at showcasing projects and technologies that implement OGF specifications) -Pharma/Life Sciences (ranging from projects that have turned to or developed grid-based solutions or those still in the exploration phase) -Financial Services (addressing various dynamic and virtualized resources allowing for flexibility in optimizing compute-data proximity in this space). The complete CFP can be viewed at http://ogf.org/OGF22/cfp.php. 2. OGF22 Registration Register today to take advantage of OGF22's Early Registration rate which expires on Friday, January 11! Registration is available by fax, phone or online. For complete details or to obtain this low rate, please visit http://ogf.org/OGF22/registration.php. 3. OGF22 Hotel Reservations OGF has secured a block of sleeping rooms at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge (meeting location) at a special rate of $129 for single or double occupancy. Reservations must be made on or before February 8, 2008, to receive the discounted rate. Reservations can be made by calling the hotel directly (be sure to reference 'OGF22') or online via http://ogf.org/OGF22/lodging.php. 4. OGF22 Student Scholarships A limited number of student scholarships are available for qualifying students. Hosted by OGF and CoreGRID, the OGF22 student scholarship program provides a unique opportunity for students to participate in OGF program sessions and group sessions as well as network with distinguished community participants and leaders. Application details and eligibility requirements can be found at http://ogf.org/OGF22/students.php. 5. Group Chair Scheduling OGF Group Chair session scheduling will remain open until January 11. Session scheduling and document details along with a link to the online session request site can be accessed via http://ogf.org/OGF22/chairinfo.php. 6. Sponsorship Opportunities Sponsoring OGF events provides numerous opportunities for your organization to gain greater visibility and recognition as a Grid leader in our global community. Please review the sponsor prospectus at http://ogf.org/OGF22/sponsor.php and consider sponsoring OGF22.

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December07 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

The December 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?dec07 to view the newsletter. In this month's edition: * SC07 Report - High Performance Computing Basic Profile Demonstration * SC07 Report - OGF Grid Interoperation Now Demonstrations * Now Open - OGF22 Registration/Call for Participation/Sponsorships * Globecom07 Report * Documents Update - Documents in Public Comment * Upcoming Events - OGF22, 23 & 24, Management Developers Conference, IGT and More * Newsletter Contributors Needed * Please Renew your Organization Membership for 2008 Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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December07 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

The December 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?dec07 to view the newsletter. In this month's edition: * SC07 Report - High Performance Computing Basic Profile Demonstration * SC07 Report - OGF Grid Interoperation Now Demonstrations * Now Open - OGF22 Registration/Call for Participation/Sponsorships * Globecom07 Report * Documents Update - Documents in Public Comment * Upcoming Events - OGF22, 23 & 24, Management Developers Conference, IGT and More * Newsletter Contributors Needed * Please Renew your Organization Membership for 2008 Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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November07 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

The November 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?nov07 to view the newsletter. In this month's edition: * SC07 Preview - Interoperability Demonstrations * OGF21 Wrap Up and Survey Results * OGF and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Ink MoU * SAGA Tutorial at Grid2007 * Documents Update - New Publications and Documents in Public Comment * Upcoming Events - OGF22, Globecom, and DMTF Management Developers Conference * Newsletter Contributors Needed * Membership Information - Budget Planning for 2008 Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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GridConnections Newsletter, October 2007
by Craig Lee 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

All, Today I officially take the reins as OGF's next president. I am excited by the opportunities in front of us but we must also have a clear understanding of what these opportunities require. Our challenge for the future is to shape the grid concept to meet the evolving spectrum of application requirements that we see happening all around us. I see this as the beginning of a new phase for OGF and I hope you all agree. In the attached OGF GridConnections newsletter, I have outlined a vision for our community moving forward. I hope you take the time to read it and provide me your feedback. (The newsletter is also available at: http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_newsletter.php.) We must all stay active and engaged in order to achieve our common goal of accelerating Grid adoption in science and industry. I also want to encourage all of you to come to OGF21 where I hope to further the dialog and encourage a lively debate on the future of our community. We have made great strides thus far in 2007. Let's continue that momentum so that we enter 2008 fully prepared to take on the immediate challenges ahead. Complete information is available at: http://www.ogf.org/OGF21/events_ogf21.php. On a personal note, it was tremendously gratifying to receive the many congratulatory emails after the announcement was made of my assuming the responsibility of President of OGF. Thank you all for your kind words. I look forward with great optimism and anticipation to the next three years in OGF. --Craig

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Last Chance to Save on OGF21
by John Ehrig 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Pre-event registration for OGF21 closes this Friday, September 28. This is your last chance to save up to $100 off the on-site registration fee. We have had two great events this year and we expect to end the year with increased momentum around our standards, research, and enterprise activities. Please register today at http://www.ogf.org/OGF21/events_regstrtn_ogf21.php OGF21 (Seattle, Washington October 15-19) will feature an exceptional technical working group program, workshops on software solutions and scientific applications, and an enterprise track focused on Grid use in IT data centers: **TECHNICAL PROGRAM: Over 80 sessions dedicated to advancing the work of OGF's research, community and working groups including OGSA, Reference Model, Virtualization, GLUE, SAGA, GRAAP, and many more. Also, learn about the SC07 demonstration plans of the HPC Profile, GIN and Byte I/O groups. **WORKSHOPS: - Web 2.0: This full day workshop features presentations on research and commercial applications of Web 2.0 technology including HPC, Cyberinfrastructure, Semantic Research, Social Networking and more. - Geospatial: This half day workshop is a collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Engage on topics such as grid-enabling the OGC's Web Processing Service and a NSF proposal on Community-based Data Interoperability Networks. - GridNet2: this workshop will highlight the work of the UK eScience at the OGF and in related standards bodies and encourage work across different working groups. **SOFTWARE AND SOLUTIONS: The software and solution track features over a dozen sessions dedicated to open-source and commercial software providers discussing their offerings and interacting with grid users and managers on desired features. The software providers will also participate in a round-table discussion on critical requirements to the interoperation of production grids around the world, as identified by OGF's GIN Working Group. **ENTERPRISE: This full day track is dedicated to the emerging application of Grids in enterprises. Sessions will focus on thought leadership and case studies of Grid deployments in the IT data center, grids and server virtualization and data caching applications. Presentations by Boeing, SAS, Platform Computing, Oracle, Gemstone, Gigaspaces, Intel and others are anticipated. To view the program schedule, visit http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=8. OGF21 sponsorship opportunities are also still available. By sponsoring OGF21, you will position your organization as a Grid thought leader and innovator and build brand awareness and visibility within the grid community. http://www.ogf.org/OGF21/events_sponsorship_ogf21.php Don't forget, register today and save http://www.ogf.org/OGF21/events_regstrtn_ogf21.php Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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OGF21 Update - Preliminary Program...Registration Deadline...Hotel Info
by John Ehrig 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

The preliminary program schedule for OGF21 (Seattle, Washington October 15-19) is now available http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=8. OGF21 will feature an exceptional technical working group program, workshops on software solutions and scientific applications, and an enterprise track focused on Grid use in IT data centers. * Technical Working Group Program: Over 80 sessions dedicated to advancing the work of OGF's research, community and working groups including OGSA, Reference Model, Virtualization, GLUE, SAGA, GRAAP, and many more. Also, learn about the SC07 demonstration plans of the HPC Profile and GIN groups. * Workshops: Web 2.0 - This full day workshop features presentations on research and commercial applications of Web 2.0 technology including HPC, Cyberinfrastructure, Semantic Research, Social Networking and more. Geospatial - This half day workshop is a collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Engage on topics such as grid-enabling the OGC's Web Processing Service and a NSF proposal on Community-based Data Interoperability Networks. GridNet2 - this workshop will highlight the work of the UK eScience at the OGF and in related standards bodies and encourage work across different working groups. * Software and Solutions Track: The software and solution track features over a dozen sessions dedicated to open-source and commercial software providers discussing their offerings and interacting with grid users and managers on desired features. The software providers will also participate in a round-table discussion on critical requirements to the interoperation of production grids around the world, as identified by OGF's GIN Working Group. * Enterprise Track: This full day track is dedicated to the emerging application of Grids in enterprises. Sessions will focus on thought leadership and case studies of Grid deployments in the IT data center, grids and server virtualization and data caching applications. Presentations by Boeing, SAS, Platform Computing, Gemstone, Gigaspaces, Intel and others are anticipated. The Full Registration deadline is September 28, so register now to save up to $100 off. http://www.ogf.org/OGF21/events_regstrtn_ogf21.php Hotel Information - RESERVATIONS ARE FILLING QUICKLY. RESERVE YOUR ROOM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO GUARANTEE THE NEGOTIATED RATE! http://www.ogf.org/OGF21/events_lodging_ogf21.php Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum | Open Standards

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September 07 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

The September 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_newsletter.php to view the newsletter. In this month's edition: * Grid Landscape and Technical Strategy and Roadmap Documents Published * OGF21 - Preliminary Program Now Available * GridToday Article - Mark Linesch Discusses Emerging Trends and Technologies * Valuable OGF Presentations from Next Generation Data Center Event * OGF21 - Sponsorship Opportunities * Documents Update - 6 New Documents Including 3 New Recommendations * OGF 2008 Event Schedule Announced * Other Upcoming Events - SC07 and SYSTOR 2007 * Join OGF Today * Closing Comments Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org

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August 07 GridConnections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

The August 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?aug07 to view the newsletter. In this month's edition: * July 07 Member Survey Results * OGF's Grid Pavilion at Next Generation Data Center * OGF21 - CFP Deadline Extended/Advanced Registration Deadline Nears/Sponsor the Event * Documents Update - Two New Recommendations Published * OGF Event Participation - DMTF Symposium and CCGrid2007 * Other Upcoming Events - SYSTOR 2007 * Join OGF Today * Closing Comments Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org

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OGF21 Call for Community Participation Deadline Nearing
by John Ehrig 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

The July 27th deadline to submit proposals for content for OGF21 is now less than 2 weeks away. Please visit the Call for Participation web page http://www.ogf.org/gf/session_request/cfp.php for more information and to submit your proposal. We are particularly seeking content related to the following topics: * Web 2.0 * Grid Case Studies * Vendor and Software Developer Adoption Issues * Software Solutions About OGF21 OGF21 will be held in Seattle, Washington October 15-19. OGF21 will continue the momentum established through OGF's two previous 2007 events by providing high-quality content and a productive work environment to advance grid adoption in research and enterprise. At OGF21, the global Grid community will gather to develop Grid standards, showcase applications, workshop Enterprise and eScience best practices, and present business case studies and solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.ogf.org/OGF21/events_ogf21.php Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Enterprise and Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org Open Forum|Open Standards

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OGF July 2007 Newsletter
by Steve Crumb 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

The July 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link to view the newsletter. http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?jul07 In this month's edition: * SAGA, JSDL, HPC Basic Profile and OGSA BES Specification Summaries Released * 2007/2008 NOMCOM Being Formed * OGF21 - CFP Deadline Nearing/Advanced Registration Opens/Sponsorship Opportunities * Take Our Mid-year Member Survey * GridWorld 2007 and GridAsia 2007 Report Out From Mark Linesch * Welcome New Organizational Member - NTT Communications * Documents Update * Last Chance to Reserve Space at OGF's Grid Pavilion at Next Generation Data Center * Other Upcoming Events * Join OGF Today * Closing Comments Regards, Steve Crumb Executive Director, OGF scrumb(a)ogf.org +1 312-895-5931 (new)

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June 07 Grid Connections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

The June 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?jun07 <http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php?jun07> to view the newsletter. In this month's edition: * OGF21 Preview * Documents Update * Welcome New Organizational Members - XtreemOS and Gridforum Nederland * Leadership Award Winners * OGF20 Wrap-up and Survey Results * OGF Grid Pavilion and Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) Event * Other Upcoming Events * Join OGF Today * Closing Comments John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org <http://www.ogf.orgopen/> Open Forum | Open Standards

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May 07 Grid Connections Newsletter
by John Ehrig 08 May '07

08 May '07

The May 07 GridConnections newsletter is here. Open the attached document or follow this link http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_newsletter.php to view the newsletter. In this month's edition: * Standards Q&A with Dave Snelling and Chris Smith * OGF20 Attendees - Please Take Our Event Survey * Q&A with the DRMAA Team * "Grid - Distributed Computing at Scale" and Other Documents In Public Comment * Welcome New Organizational Members - Pacific Northwest Gigapop and Software Process Technologies * New Area Director Named and Other Updates * Upcoming Events * Join OGF Today * Closing Comments John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org <http://www.ogf.orgopen/> Open Forum | Open Standards

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Last Chance to Register and Save
by John Ehrig 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

The deadline for saving up to $100 on OGF20/EGEE User Forum registration is this Friday, April 27 at midnight US Central time. With over 700 grid leaders, technologists, and users registered, you won't want to miss the premier grid and distributed computing event of the year. Register today by visiting http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> . The OGF20/EGEE User Forum is being held May 7-11 in Manchester, UK. The five day program includes an exciting array of opportunities for attendees to learn, outreach, network, and contribute to the work of our international grid community. Highlights will include: * OGF Group Sessions - continuing the standards and best practice work of our community while contributing to deployment success and global adoption; * OGF Enterprise Workshops - bringing together industry-specific experts to workshop requirements and examine adoption issues; * OGF eScience Workshops - exploring grid technology application in a variety of Academic and Scientific endeavors; * EGEE User Forum - providing opportunities for discussions between users and Grid service providers, as well as the chance to interactively demonstrate prototypes and production applications; * Grids Mean Business Industry Track - highlighting the advantages of Grid technology to IT leaders and Managers in a variety of commercial sectors; * OGF/EGEE plenary day - bringing users and standards bodies together to ensure that the future of the Grid is complemented by the establishment of key standards To view the full program schedule, visit http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7 <http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7> For hotel and lodging information, please visit http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_lodging_ogf20.php We look forward to seeing you in Manchester! OGF and EGEE wish to thank the following sponsors and partners: Premier Sponsors: * Grid Computing Now! * HP * Microsoft * UK eScience * Interactive European Grid Project Standard Sponsors: * Akogrimo * BalticGrid * BEinGrid * BREIN * CoreGRID * Excelian Limited * Force10 Networks * Fraunhofer * Health-e Child * Interactive Grid and Instruments: CSIC, Poznan, Karlsruhe and CNIT * NextGRID * Oracle * OMII - Europe * Platform Computing * Technische Universitat Berlin * Unicore Forum Media Sponsors: * ComputerworldUK * Techworld * GridToday Event Partners: * UK eScience * University of Manchester * Grid Computing Now! * NCeSS * CoreGRID REGISTER TODAY AND SAVE! Simply visit http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> . Regards, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org <http://www.ogf.orgopen/> Open Forum | Open Standards

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OGF20/ EGEE User Forum Program Highlights
by John Ehrig 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Register this week for OGF20 and save up to $100 <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php. Join the 800 Grid leaders and technologists gathering at this event being held May 7-11 in Manchester, UK. The five day program includes an exciting array of opportunities for attendees to learn, outreach, network, and contribute to the work of our international grid community. Highlights include: Keynote presentations from Grid luminaries including Tony Hey (Microsoft), Peter Coveney (University College London), and Mario Campolargo (European Commission). The Grids Mean Business Track running on Tuesday, May 8th and Wednesday, May 9th, and will feature Paul Strong, e-Bay, as a keynote speaker, together with a selection of grid innovators and champions from the UK and around the world. The track will showcase grid in action and allow attendees to learn from their peers who are reaping the benefits of grid computing technologies. Many of the speakers will feature case studies, generating a real sense of "can do" led by these early adopters. Following the Grids Mean Business track, all attendees are welcome and encouraged to attend the OGF20 Enterprise requirements, best practices and developer and vendor adoption sessions being held on Thursday, May 10th. The Best Practices working session will review and discuss the draft document "Best practices to efficiently deploy and manage my Enterprise Grid infrastructure". The end result of this activity will be the publication of the first in a series of Enterprise Best Practice documents by the OGF. OGC-OGF Collaboration Workshop will identify and produce standard, grid-enabled geospatial information tools in the context of a service-oriented architecture. There will be presentations from key stakeholders and potential adopters followed by a panel session to get rough consensus on specific activities, such as harmonizing the OGC Reference Model with emerging web services. The 2nd International Workshop on Campus and Community Grids will provide a balanced view of connectivity issues between local, regional, national and international grid endeavours and call on the experiences of the grid community to ensure that issues are not missed. With the success of interoperability between National infrastructures, it is important to expand and connect existent Campus Grid systems to the national grids. The Program will also include dozens of chartered group sessions advancing grid specifications, other eScience and Enterprise-related workshops, and a series of sessions examining Grid issues in the Education and Training field. Without a doubt, this will be the biggest and most encompassing Grid event of the year. To view the full program schedule visit <http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7> http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7 We look forward to seeing you in Manchester! OGF and EGEE wish to thank the following sponsors and partners: Premier Sponsors: * Grid Computing Now! * HP * Microsoft * UK eScience * Interactive European Grid Project Standard Sponsors: * Akogrimo * BalticGrid * BEinGrid * BREIN * CoreGRID * Excelian Limited * Force10 Networks * Fraunhofer * Health-e Child * Interactive Grid and Instruments: CSIC, Poznan, Karlsruhe and CNIT * NextGRID * Oracle * OMII - Europe * Platform Computing * Technische Universitat Berlin * Unicore Forum Media Sponsors: * ComputerWorld * Techworld * GridToday Event Partners: * UK eScience * University of Manchester * Grid Computing Now! * NCeSS * CoreGRID REGISTER TODAY AND SAVE! Simply visit <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php. Regards, John Ehrig OGF Marketing Manager john.ehrig(a)ogf.org 925-275-6677

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OGF20 - Register Now and Save
by John Ehrig 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Register today and join the 800 Grid leaders and technologists gathering at the OGF20 and EGEE User Forum event being held May 7-11 in Manchester, UK. It is not too late to save up to $100 on registration, go to http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> . Without a doubt, this will be the biggest and most encompassing Grid event of the year. Highlights include: *Group Sessions* - gain insight and influence the standards and best practice work of our community and contribute to global adoption and deployment *Enterprise Workshops* - examine requirements and issues in leading Grid vertical user segments including Finance, Pharma, Auto and Aerospace *eScience Workshops* - explore new grid technologies including Dynamic Service Levels, Computational Steering and Service-Oriented Utilities and the application of grids in Arts and Humanities, Astronomical Science, Geospatial Science and Campus and Community Grids *Grids Mean Business* - 2-day IT industry program with case studies, panel discussions and selected talks demonstrating examples of successful deployments and highlighting the advantage of using Grid technology in a variety of commercial sectors *Insightful Keynotes* - presentations from Grid luminaries including Tony Hey (Microsoft), Peter Coveney (University College London), Mario Campolargo (European Commission), Paul Strong (eBay), Mark Linesch (OGF) and Bob Jones (EGEE) *Solution Showcase* - Grid exhibits, poster sessions and demonstrations highlighting key applications and technologies *EGEE User Forum* - providing opportunities for in-depth discussions between users and EGEE service providers, as well as prototype and production applications And much more. To view the full program schedule visit http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7 <http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/?event_id=7> We look forward to seeing you in Manchester! OGF and EGEE wish to thank the following sponsors and partners: Premier Sponsors: * Grid Computing Now! * HP * Microsoft * UK eScience * Interactive European Grid Project Standard Sponsors: * Akogrimo * BalticGrid * BEinGrid * BREIN * CoreGRID * Fondazione Gerolamo Gaslini (Health-e Child) * Force10 Networks * Fraunhofer * Interactive Grid and Instruments: CSIC, Poznan, Karlsruhe and CNIT * NextGRID * OMII - Europe * Platform Computing * Unicore Forum Event Partners: * UK eScience * University of Manchester * Grid Computing Now! * NCeSS * CoreGRID REGISTER TODAY AND SAVE! Simply visit http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php <http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php> . Regards, John Ehrig OGF Marketing Manager john.ehrig(a)ogf.org 925-275-6677

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OGF Member Survey http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB225WPEGUMR4
by John Ehrig 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Hi All, We are well short of our needed number of responses, so please take our member survey today http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB225WPEGUMR4 <http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB225WPEGUMR4> Results will be used to improve our member services and help guide our strategy. Thanks, John Ehrig Open Grid Forum Marketing Program Manager 925 275-6677 www.ogf.org <http://www.ogf.orgopen/> Open Forum | Open Standards

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OGF December Newsletter
by Steve Crumb 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Dear OGF Members and Participants, The December edition of the OGF eNewsletter is here. Open the attached PDF file or follow this link to view the newsletter http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php. This month's topics include: * OGF HPC Profile Interoperability Demonstration Q&A with Marty Humphrey * Announcing Our Member Survey * New Security Document Published * New Data Area Director Named * Welcome New Organizational Members: Sun Microsystems and Availigent * Upcoming Events Preview * 2007 Membership Reminder Regards, Steve Crumb Executive Director, OGF scrumb(a)ogf.org +1 312-895-5931 (new)

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FW: OGF eNewsletter - November 2006
by Steve Crumb 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

If your email system does not allow html viewing, please go to http://www.ogf.org/News/newscal_enews.php to read the newsletter. OGF Monthly Newsletter November 2006 A look at Past Accomplishments and A Preview of Coming Attractions Welcome to the new OGF Monthly eNewsletter Each month we will highlight accomplishments for the past month and preview activities planned for the coming month. Please feel free to submit newsletter suggestions and items for consideration to jehrig(a)ogf.org. New Document Published GFD.082 - Grid Information Retrieval System for Dynamically Reconfigurable Virtual Organization Two important requirements that all Grid application systems should satisfy are to accommodate the dynamic nature of Virtual Organizations (VOs), and to enforce different levels of security among different VOs. This document shows how to implement a Grid Information Retrieval (GIR) system using VO and security mechanisms provided by Globus toolkit 3.0, and shows how GIR system scalability and security can be improved for dynamic VOs. Congratulations to the Grid Information Retrieval Working Group and Author Yangwoo Kim! Read the full document at http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.82.pdf Area Directors Named Technical Areas are the bedrock of the OGF and our Technical Area Directors manage and facilitate groups, milestones and deliverables in defined areas of expertise such as data, architecture, management, etc. Ellen Stokes, Management Ellen is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Grid Strategy, Architecture, and Standards area. She is Co-chair of GGF/OGSA resource management design team to help OGSA model the resources necessary for Grid and put those model extensions/modifications into the DMTF Common Information Model. Ellen can be reached at stokese(a)us.ibm.com Blair Dillaway, Security Blair is a software architect in the advanced technology incubation group of Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Office. He has participated in the OGSA Authz WG, providing substantive feedback on the new charter for the WG and commenting on early draft specifications. Blair can be reached at blaird(a)microsoft.com David Groep, Security David has worked in the grid security area for a number of years, initially in the context of the European DataGrid project, continuing in EGEE, where he was responsible for the design of the site access control security services. He has long experience in GGF/OGF, being active in the security area, particularly its internationalization. David can be reached at davidg(a)nikhef.nl New Organizational Members Welcome to our newest organizational members Altair Engineering and CANARIE. Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, Altair Engineering is a leading global product design consulting and technology company. Through engineering, consulting, CAE software solutions and high performance computing technologies, Altair Engineering increases innovation for more than 1,500 clients around the globe. Altair's PBS Professional operates in networked multi-platform UNIX environments, and supports heterogeneous clusters of workstations, supercomputers, and massively parallel systems. http://www.altair.com/ Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, CANARIE's mission is to accelerate Canada's advanced Internet development and use by facilitating the widespread adoption of faster, more efficient networks and by enabling the next generation of advanced products, applications and services to run on them. http://www.canarie.ca/about/index.html <http://www.canarie.ca/about/index.html> Event Review OGF/ITU-T Next Generation Networks Workshop On October 23-24, OGF and ITU-T collaborated on a workshop that brought together experts from the grid and next generation network communities. OGF is actively reaching out to communities such as the Telco community to advance Grid adoption, interoperability and scalability. Opportunities for Telco's include: 1) specializing in network SLAs that are optimally suited to Grids; 2) using Grids for their IT internal needs; and/or 3) offering Grids as a managed service to customers. ITU-T's Global Standards Initiative on Next Generation Network (NGN-GSI) is well under way and is responding to urgent market needs for global NGN standards. NGN offers increased quality and service features for users, independent of the underlying transport technology. During the two day workshop, graciously hosted by ITU-T at the headquarters in Geneva, OGF and ITU-T discussed current status of our respective work and explored opportunities for alignment and collaboration. The full workshop agenda and presentations including a summary report-out are available at http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/grid/programme.html Upcoming Events SC06 Tampa, Florida November 11-16 OGF will have an exciting announcement regarding this show. Watch for details coming soon. DMTF Management Developers Conference December 4-7 in Santa Clara, CA OGF is a sponsor of this event and will by represented by Tom Roney, Ellen Stokes and Fred Maciel who will lead a session on behalf of the Resource Management Design Team. Visit the conference website for more information http://www.mandevcon.com/. OGF19 Chapel Hill, North Carolina January 29 - February 2, 2007 Program will include a full slate of chartered group sessions, 2 days of eScience workshops, Enterprise sessions, and more. Register and save up to $100 http://www.ogf.org/OGF19/events_regstrtn_ogf19.php. OGF20 Manchester, U.K. May 7-11, 2007 Save these dates! Program overview to be announced soon. Individual Members - Activate your 2007 Membership Even though 2007 is a couple of months away, OGF is launching its 2007 individual membership program now in order to provide immediate benefit to 2007 members planning to attend OGF19. The fee for 2007 membership is $195 and registered members will receive a $100 discount to all 2007 OGF events. Individuals who are not employed by OGF organizational members may join OGF at http://www.regonline.com/112287. Individuals that registered under the 2006 program are requested to reregister for 2007 at a reduced 2007 annual fee of $100. Your member number will be required to obtain this discount. Individual member benefits can be seen at http://www.ogf.org/Members/members_ind_program.php. Questions may be sent to member-info(a)ogf.org The success of OGF depends upon member participation. All of the significant events, activities and accomplishments of the forum are member driven. Please contact any OGF staff member if you want to get involved http://www.ogf.org/ggf_contact.htm. We welcome your input!

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OGF19 Call for Participation
by Steve Crumb 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

[Apologies if you received duplicates of this email] Call for Participation The 19th Open Grid Forum - OGF19 January 29-February 2, 2007 Chapel Hill, NC USA OGF is comprised of a number of "communities of interest" who either are users of grids in their domain or develop innovative approaches to perceived roadblocks to the adoption of grids or grid research. The OGF19 Program seeks to build new and strengthen existing communities of interest in OGF including eScience and enterprise. The OGF19 Program will offer a series of 30-90 minute talks and panels emphasizing the applications and operations of grids in research and commercial contexts. It will also consist of half and full-day research workshops of standards-based implementations of grid software. While there are no formal publication requirements, publications in the form of OGF Informational Documents, journal articles/special or equivalent are encouraged and all session organizers are required to submit materials (including slides) for inclusion on the OGF web pages prior to the event. These program activities may run in parallel with other OGF activities (such as standards sessions) but every attempt will be made in scheduling to minimize unnecessary clashes. Proposals are now being accepted for the OGF19 Program. Only proposals submitted online prior to 17 November will be considered. To submit a proposal, visit: http://www.ogf.org/gf/session_request/commreq.php Acceptance notices will be sent during the last week of November or the first week of December. Details (examples, abstracts and slides) of past successful OGF programs can be viewed at: http://www.ogf.org/GGF16/schedule/community.php OGF19 PROGRAM KEY DATES & DEADLINES Call for Proposals Deadline - November 17 Acceptance Notification - November 27 - December 1 [Advance acceptance notification may be given for workshops that involve individual CFPs] Presentation slides due - January 8 Steve Crumb Executive Director, OGF scrumb(a)ogf.org +1 312-895-5931 (new)

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OGF19 Save the Date!
by Ann Collins 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Dear OGF Member, Please save this date: OGF19 January 29 - February 2, 2007 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA <http://www.ogf.org/OGF19/events_ogf19.php> http://www.ogf.org/OGF19/events_ogf19.php This 'group-focused' event offers the OGF community opportunities for concentrated working sessions throughout the week combined with a mid-week alignment program. The conference will include: * Dedicated time for group sessions to allow maximum productivity * Enterprise requirements gathering and roll-up sessions * eScience workshops 'Web 2.0 & Grids' and 'Federated Identity' * Grid technology updates and other insightful content Early bird registration and other details will be announced soon. We look forward to seeing you in North Carolina. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ann M. Collins Program Manager, Events Open Grid Forum 15700 103rd Street, Suite 210 Lemont, IL 60439 Phone: +1-312-895-5932 Fax: +1-630-991-2923 Mobile: +1-630-715-1943 Mail to: collins(a)ogf.org **NEW**

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Delivery failure
by postmaster＠sklad10.ogf.org 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

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eNews from the Open Grid Forum
by Steve Crumb 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Greetings from GGF18 at GridWorld in Washington DC! Throughout the week, we have been introducing GridWorld participants to the newly launched Open Grid Forum. We've handed out hundreds of OGF coffee mugs and celebrated the exciting future OGF has to accelerate grid adoption world wide. I wanted to take a moment and send a brief update of some important developments: 1) Launch Documents 2) Membership Activation 3) Next OGF Events Launch Documents - OGF delivered the first edition of its newsletter (see: <http://www.ogf.org/News/ggf_newscal_newsletter.php> http://www.ogf.org/News/ggf_newscal_newsletter.php) - Mark Linesch delivered a white paper describing the new organization (see: <http://www.ogf.org/ogf_overview/merger_docs/OpenGridForum-Overview.pdf> http://www.ogf.org/ogf_overview/merger_docs/OpenGridForum-Overview.pdf) I would encourage you to take a look at both and send feedback to either myself or Mark on its content. - We also launched the "ogf.org" website and invite you to visit (see <http://www.ogf.org/> http://www.ogf.org) Membership Activation We also launched a new membership activation page ( <http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=100256> http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=100256) Now that the organization is launched, we wish to encourage greater engagement in our existing work and new work of the organization. The brief membership activation process collects contact information and some interests you have that would enable our leadership to point you to work that fits with your expertise. If you are already engaged in that work, we still wish to have your most recent information to get important announcements and updates to you. Whether you are an employee of an organizational member or an individual not affiliated with an organizational member, please visit the site and activate your benefits. Upcoming OGF event discounts and other member benefits will be tied to membership activation, so please take a couple of minutes and complete this form today. For more information on the membership program, please visit: <http://www.ogf.org/Members/members_become.php> http://www.ogf.org/Members/members_become.php. Next OGF Events Please mark your calendar for these events: - OGF19 January 29-February 2 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA. This event will focus on OGF group sessions and workshops. - OGF20 May 7-11 in Manchester, UK where we will join forces with UK eScience and collocate with the EGEE in a week-long set of activities. We are grateful for your interest and participation in the Open Grid Forum. Steve Crumb Executive Director, OGF scrumb(a)ogf.org +1 312-895-5931 (new)

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Inderpal Narang is out of the office.
by Inderpal Narang 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

I will be out of the office starting 09/08/2006 and will not return until 09/21/2006. I'm on a business trip to Korea/China

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Re: [GRID-ANNOUNCE] SIIK 2006 Last CFPs - 1st Int. Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - Deadline: Sep 15, 2006
by grid-announce-bounces＠ogf.org 10 Sep '06

10 Sep '06

I am currently out of office to attend DEXA/DaWaK 2006 in Krakow, Poland until September 10. During this time, I can rarely access my email thus your message may be answered with delay. Best regards, Nguyen Manh Tho

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SIIK 2006 Last CFPs - 1st Int. Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - Deadline: Sep 15, 2006
by Nguyen Manh Tho 10 Sep '06

10 Sep '06

Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students) CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st International Workshop "Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery" - (SIIK 2006) --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ares-conf.org/siik in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2006) http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2006/ 4-6 December 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Introduction ------------- Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key technology for enterprises and organizations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data. With the exponential growing amount of information to be included in the decision making process, the data to be considered becomes more and more complex in both structure and semantics, located in heterogeneous and distributed systems. Furthermore, the explosive growth and popularity of the world-wide web has resulted in a huge number of information sources on the Internet. Consequently, the process of retrieval and knowledge discovery from this huge amount of heterogeneous complex data builds the litmus-test for the research in the area. Information Integration subsumes all technologies needed to provide form manipulation of information scattered over many information systems while supporting a single system image. Information integration has been a long standing challenge for the database community in the last decades. Although there are several distinct research and development areas explicitly or implicitly addressing data integration, the schematic and semantic heterogeneity is still one of the most difficulties in the integration of heterogeneous knowledge and information systems - one of the perquisite steps of knowledge discovery process. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to present their recent work, discuss and identify problems, synergize different views of techniques and policies, and brainstorm future research/development directions on semantic information integration used in knowledge discovery. The research on progress, draft idea, architecture submissions are also welcome. Particularly, we strongly encourage submissions dealing with real world applications such as information integration in science information systems, health-care systems, e-government, e-commerce, workflow management systems, web information systems, etc. Topics of interests ------------------- The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Standards based Information Integration - Managing metadata for information integration - Semantic Integration - Information extraction - Information quality/data cleaning - Resolving inconsistency across sources - Ontologies for Information Integration - Ontology mapping and merging - Schema mapping/evaluating/integrating - On-the-fly Integration - Secure Information Integration - Information Integration architectures - Reviews and evaluation of existing Integration approaches - Tools for supporting Information Integration - Data Integration in data warehousing/ data mining - Data integration in P2P/Grid systems - Data Integration in Health Care systems - Data Integration in e-Commerce applications - Data Integration in e-Government applications - Data Integration in e-Science applications - Data Integration Management for mobile applications - Workflow Information Integration - Data Integration across Institutional Borders Submission Instructions ----------------------- The SIIK workshop accepts full and short research papers. For paper registration and electronic submission please use the following website: http://www.ares-conf.org/siik/review The length of the full paper should not exceed 10 pages and short paper should not exist 5 pages. Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). (to be found at http://www.ocg.at/activities/books/Richtlinien.pdf) Submitted papers will be blind reviewed and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews. The submission implies that at least one author must register at the iiWAS conference and present the paper. Important Dates --------------- September 15, 2006 Full Papers submission October 6, 2006 Acceptance Notification October 15, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers December 4-6,2006 Workshop at iiWAS Conference Publication ------------ All accepted workshop papers will be published in the Austrian Computer Society book series. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of : [1] International Journal of Web Information Systems (http://www.troubador.co.uk/ijwis) [2] International Journal of Web and Grid Services (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=47) [3] International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=143) [4] More are pending approval Workshop Organizers ------------------- Nguyen Manh Tho, Ph.D. (main contact) Institute of Software Technique and Interactive System, Vienna University of Technology , Favoriten strasse 9-11/188 A1040 Vienna, Austria tho(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at Benhard Sitohang, Ph.D. School of electrical engineering & Informatics, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia Benhard(a)informatika.org Programme Committee ------------------- Ahmad Ashari, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA - Poitiers University, France Andrea Cali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy R. Scott Cost, The Johns Hopkins University, USA Mohand-Said Hacid, University Lyon 1, France Danile Herin, Montpellier II University. LIRMM, France Ela Hunt, ETH Zurich, Switzland Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Ramon Lawrence, University of British Columbia Okanagan, USA Domenico Lembo, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata, Italy Marco Mesiti, DICO - University of Milano, Italy Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Marta Sabou, KMi, The Open University, UK Benhard Sitohang, School of electrical engineering & Informatics - ITB, Indonesia Putri Saptawati, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Laurentiu Vasiliu, DERI, National Unversity of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Basuki Widodo, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November, Indonesia Huiyong Xiao, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

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OGF Announces At-Large Board Members
by Steve Crumb 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Dear OGF/GGF/EGA Participant, Over this last weekend, Open Grid Forum (OGF) completed its process for electing the At-Large Board representatives. Please join me in congratulating our new At-Large Board members: - Jason Carolan, Sun Microsystems - Charlie Catlett, TeraGrid, U of Chicago/Argonne Labs - Dr. Hiro Kishimoto, Fujitsu - Dr. Bill Nitzberg, Altair Engineering/PBSPro - Paul Strong, eBay These five At-large members will join the board representatives from our ten Platinum organizational members: - Intel - Oracle - IBM - Network Appliance - Microsoft - Hewlett-Packard - Fujitsu-Siemens - UK eScience/DTI - EMC Corporation - Platform Computing. The fifteen Board Members will hold their first OGF Board meeting in the Cupertino, CA on August 24th. At our Town Hall session at GridWorld/GGF18 in Washington DC, the OGF community will have the opportunity to meet several members of the new Board along with members of the OGF leadership team. Please join me in congratulating the At-Large members of the Board and take time to greet and meet with them at GridWorld/GGF18 in Washington DC (September 11-14). If you are interested in the process followed for the At-Large election, please refer to: http://www.ogf.org/merger_docs/OGFBoardInitialAppointmentAgreement.pdf. Steve Crumb Executive Director, OGF scrumb(a)ogf.org +1 312-895-5931 (new)

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GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

July 26, 2006 1. GridWorld Registration and Programs 2. Nominations for At-Large Board Members 3. OGF Update ---------------------- 1. Early Bird registration for GridWorld/GGF18 (Sept. 11-14, Washington DC) ends July 28, so please register today to obtain the maximum savings. This year's GridWorld is comprised of multiple programs including a business-level Solutions program, a more in-depth Technology Program, and GGF's well-established Community and Standards program. To register for the GGF18 portion of the event, browse to http://www.gridworld.com/live/42/register and select the Community and Standards program. The Community Program content may be reviewed at: http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/. The Standards sessions will be posted soon to this page. GGF/EGA have teamed with IDG and GlobusWorld to provide high-quality content in the Technology and Solutions program as well. You should consider upgrading your registration package to include these programs as well. The content of these programs may be viewed at http://www.gridworld.com. 2. The deadline for At-Large Board member nominations is July 31. Members appointed to the board provide guidance and oversight through their active leadership and participation. At-large board members represent essential voices from our community - helping to provide balance, insight and expertise during board deliberations to enable the success of our mission. I invite you to participate in this essential process by visiting http://www.ogf.org/bod_election/nomination.php before July 31 and nominating individuals (self-nominations are accepted) to be considered as At-large members of the board. For more information on the entire Board appointment process, please visit http://www.ogf.org/merger_docs/OGFBoardInitialAppointmentAgreement.pdf. 3. On July 1, Open Grid Forum officially opened its doors and much has been accomplished in the last month. Over 1/3 of the former GGF and EGA organizational members have already committed to membership in OGF with more committing each week. Nine of these organizations have given written or verbal commitments to Platinum (highest) level membership. Several merger integration projects are in progress ranging from a website upgrade to the formation of the Technical Strategy Committee (TSC) to planning for our formal "launch" at the GridWorld/GGF18 event. Standards Area Directors are meeting today and tomorrow in London to discuss near-term direction and how to increase the momentum that has made GGF's document series grow significantly in the last 12 months with high-quality specifications. Community leadership is refining its strategy for high-impact activities at GridWorld including a great community program as well as a new effort to engage grid vendors in the adoption of grid specifications. In short, OGF is continuing the good work GGF has done for the last several years and, with the infusion of EGA leadership, technical groups and enterprise focus, is becoming an organization that will deliver results faster, communicate more clearly, and enable better collaboration. Stay tuned for more updates in the near future. If you wish to unsubscribe from these updates, please send a note to postmaster(a)ggf.org. Steve Crumb Executive Director, OGF scrumb(a)ogf.org +1 312-895-5931 (new)

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Announcing New EGA Webcast Featuring Micron!
by Steve Crumb 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Forwarded on behalf of EGA: The Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) invites you to attend our 60 minute webcast on grid computing in the enterprise. This is a great opportunity to gain a thorough understanding of grid computing from Micron Technology, one of the world's leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Micron has been an enterprise grid user for 5 years and has 11 globally interconnected grids running over 20 applications on 12,000 shared and dedicated processors. The EGA Reference Model Working Group will also provide a briefing on EGA's new Provisioning Use Cases. To register for this exciting event, visit: https://secure.inventures.com/irms/registration/index.asp?id=163. Registration is open to all and there is no charge to attend the webcast. When Thursday May 04, 2006 9:00 AM PDT, 12 Noon (New York), 5 PM (London) What you will learn - Micron's central governance and distributed management approach to grid computing - Several general purpose grid applications that will be of interest to any enterprise user - Push and pull application models - 'Follow-the-moon' job scheduling - The application of use cases to many common provisioning activities in an enterprise data center Featured Speakers Brooklin Gore is a Senior Fellow of Advanced Computing and Enterprise Architecture with Micron. He has been researching and implementing enterprise grid technologies for the past five years to create Micron's global grid infrastructure. Bob Thome is a Senior Manager of Distributed Databases at Oracle and EGA Reference Model Working Group Chair. He has been a leading member of EGA since its inception. Who should attend IT technologists, managers and executives who are seeking the latest information on: - Grid computing from an end user perspective - Provisioning Use Cases and the practical application of concepts in the EGA Reference Model Sign up now at https://secure.inventures.com/irms/registration/index.asp?id=163. Regards, John Ehrig EGA Marketing Programs Manager

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GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

1. GGF17 Program Highlights 2. Joint GGF & International Virtual Observatory Alliance Workshop 3. General GGF17 Information +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1. GGF17 Program Highlights Hiro Kishimoto (Fujitsu) and Masao Sakauchi (National Institute of Infomatics) will kick-off the program offering at the upcoming GGF17, collocated with the 3rd Grid World Japan Exhibition in Tokyo, May 10-12. Highlights include: - 40-plus group sessions - Free access to the Grid World Japan exhibition floor and program - 8 Birds of a Feather sessions on topics such as: Grid Education & Training (GET-CG) BoF HPC Profile BoF Data Movement Interface Standardization Software Certification BoF - Grid and Distributed Software Certification and Quality Assurance BoF Storage Networking Community Group BoF Standards Roadmap/GIN Joint BoF Plus a follow-up on the Interop Fest BoF from GGF16 - Workshops and technology updates on topics such as: Bridging the Divide between Application Requirements and Standards Grids in the Telecommunications Industry Grid Solutions in Cancer Research and Drug Discovery Usage of Grids in the Japanese Enterprise Managing Security across Grids Metadata, Search and Preservation Environments on Data Grids Gridsphere & Grid Portlets OGSA & Alternative Grid Architectures Grids and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (see desc. below) ...and many more. - The Voice of the Community (VOC) forum and Vendor Adoption Forum (VAF) will be introduced at GGF17. The goal of the VOC is to bring end-users together to capture requirements and use cases that can then be incorporated into the GGF standards development process. The VAF will bring together the vendor & developer to identify issues and constraints that make Grid standards feasible and cost-effective to implement. For a full schedule, visit: http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/. 2. Joint GGF & International Virtual Observatory Alliance Workshop This one day workshop jointly sponsored by the GGF (Astro-RG and related groups) and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (http://www.ivoa.net) will address areas where the global virtual observatory is deploying an operational distributed data access and manipulation system, utilising standards developed in the context of the GGF. The workshop will look at areas of success and areas where additional astronomy domain specific issues have required a non-standard approach. The meeting is timely in that the global Virtual Observatory (VO) projects are now deploying systems worldwide for operational and scientific use, where use of emerging GGF standards in data management and security may have a vital role to play. 3. GGF17 General Information Below are several links providing helpful information on the upcoming GGF event (GGF17) in Tokyo, 10-12 May. Schedule: http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/ Registration: http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf17.htm Hotel: http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_lodging_ggf17.htm Location/Local Information: http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_location_ggf17.htm See you in Tokyo! Steve Crumb Executive Director, GGF scrumb(a)ggf.org +1 630-252-8610 +1 630-915-3324 (cell)

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An invitation to the OGSA webcast on April 26th
by Steve Crumb 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

The GGF's OGSA Working Group invites you to join our webcast session, "Defining the Grid: An Introduction to the Open Grid Services Architecture," on Wednesday April 26th at 2pm EDT. In this webcast we will discuss the evolution of grid computing, explain how service-oriented grids fit with other leading-edge enterprise technologies, and describe OGSA and its core capabilities. The presentation will be given by Professor Andrew Grimshaw of the University of Virginia, a leading member of GGF and the OGSA Working Group. After the presentation Andrew and other members of the Working Group will be pleased to answer your questions. This webcast will be of interest to technology managers, architects and developers who would like to learn about standards-based grid technology and its place throughout the enterprise. For more details, and to register, please visit http://www.presentationselect.com/hpinvent/detailsl.asp#1188. Registration is open to all, and there is no charge. Places are limited, however, so be sure to register early. And don't worry if you can't make it to the live webcast: a recording of the session will be available a few days after the event. Please watch http://www.ggf.org for details. Steve Crumb Executive Director, GGF scrumb(a)ggf.org +1 630-252-8610 +1 630-915-3324 (cell)

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Webcast on Grid Computing in the Enterprise
by Steve Crumb 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

GGF and the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) invite you to attend our 60 minute webcast on grid computing in the enterprise. This is a great opportunity to gain a thorough understanding of grid computing from the perspective of a highly respected end user - UBS, a world-leading wealth management company. The EGA Data Provisioning Working Group will also provide a briefing on EGA's latest technical publication "Enterprise Grid Data and Storage Provisioning Problem Statement and Approach". Register at: https://secure.inventures.com/irms/registration/index.asp?id=160 for this event. Registration is open and there is no charge to attend the webcast. WHEN: Tuesday March 28, 2006 9:00 AM PST, 12 Noon EST, 5:00 PM GMT WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: Get insight into UBS' pre and post grid deployment environment Gain an understanding of enterprise grid drivers, benefits and challenges Step through a case study based on one or more UBS example applications Understand the EGA's perspective and plans regarding the enterprise grid Data Provisioning challenge Get end user insight into the value and use of EGA technical documents WHO SHOULD ATTEND: IT technologists, managers and executives who are seeking the latest information on: Grid computing from an end user perspective The data provisioning technical deliverable prepared by the EGA Sign up now (https://secure.inventures.com/irms/registration/index.asp?id=160) Steve Crumb Executive Director, GGF scrumb(a)ggf.org +1 630-252-8610 +1 630-915-3324 (cell)

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GGF17 Updates
by Steve Crumb 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1. GGF17 Call for Participation Deadline 2. GGF17 Registration/Hotel 3. GGF17 Student Scholar Applications Accepted ---------------------------------------------- 1. GGF17 Call for Participation The deadline for GGF17 proposal submission is tomorrow, 24 March. Only 4 slots remain. GGF17 will be held on 10-12 May in Tokyo, Japan. This event is collocated with the 3rd Grid World Exhibition being held on 11-12 May in the Tokyo International Forum. For more information on the call for participation, visit: http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_cfp_ggf17.htm. 2. GGF17 Registration Deadline & Hotel Information The Advance registration deadline for GGF17 in Tokyo (10-12 May) is quickly approaching. To take advantage of the lowest rates, please sign-up at: http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf17.htm. Lodging information is now available on the GGF website at http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_lodging_ggf17.htm. Reservations should be obtained online at: https://apollon.nta.co.jp/grid/. 3. GGF17 Student Scholar applications continue to be accepted for GGF's student scholars at GGF17 in Tokyo, 10-12 May. To submit an application or for more information, please visit: http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_student_ggf17.htm by March 27. Steve Crumb Executive Director, GGF scrumb(a)ggf.org +1 630-252-8610 +1 630-915-3324 (cell)

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GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

1. GGF17 Call for Participation Open 2. GGF17 Registration Open 3. GGF17 Student Scholar Applications Accepted ---------------------------------------------- 1. GGF17 Call for Participation GGF is now accepted proposals for the GGF17 program to be held on 10-12 May in Tokyo, Japan. This event is collocated with the 3rd Grid World Exhibition being held on 11-12 May in the Tokyo International Forum. For more information on the call for participation, visit: http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_cfp_ggf17.htm. The deadline for proposal submission is 24 March. 2. GGF17 Registration Open Advanced registration for GGF17 in Tokyo (10-12 May) is now open. To take advantage of the lowest rates, please sign-up today at: http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf17.htm. 3. GGF17 Student Scholar Applications Accepted Applications are now being accepted for GGF's student scholars at GGF17 in Tokyo, 10-12 May. To submit an application or for more information, please visit: http://www.ggf.org/GGF17/ggf_events_student_ggf17.htm. Steve Crumb Executive Director, GGF scrumb(a)ggf.org +1 630-252-8610 +1 630-915-3324 (cell)

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New GGF docs published
by Steve Crumb 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

GGF eNewsletter 1. GGF Document Series Grows 2. GGF16 Helpful Links 3. Leadership Award Nominations Sought --------------------------------------- 1. GGF Document Series Grows The GGF Document Series recently added five new documents to its list of published documents. These documents represent the hard work of several of GGF's groups including the Grid File System-WG, Grid Economy Services Architecture-WG, Open Grid Services Architecture-WG, Open Grid Services Authorization-WG. These new documents may be downloaded and the entire GGF document series found at http://www.ggf.org/documents. <http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD.61.pdf>GFD.61 The GGF Grid File System Architecture Workbook Author: A. Jagatheesan <http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD.60.pdf>GFD.60 Grid Economy Use Cases Authors: J. MacLaren, S. Newhouse, T. Haupt, K. Keahey, W. Lee <http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD.59.pdf>GFD.59 OGSA Profile Definition v1.0 Authors: T. Maguire, D. Snelling <http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD.58.pdf>GFD.58 Standardised Namespaces for XML infosets in GGF Authors: M. Drescher, A. Anjomshoaa <http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD.57.pdf>GFD.57 Attributes used in OGSI Authorization Authors: M. Thompson, V. Welch, M. Lorch, R. Lepro, D. Chadwidk, V. Ciaschini Please congratulate the authors and group participants for their contributions to the Series. 2. GGF16 Information Below are several links providing helpful information on the upcoming GGF event (GGF16) in Athens, Greece, on 13-16 February. Schedule: http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_schedule_ggf16.htm Registration: http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf16.htm Hotel: http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_lodging_ggf16.htm Introduction to Grid Tutorial: http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=159 (Note: You must register for this tutorial and small, additional fee applies) 3. Nominations sought for Leadership Award GGF is seeking nominations for future recipients of the GGF Leadership Award. The next award will be presented at the Opening Session at GGF16 in Athens. Past GGF Leadership Awards recipients include Hiro Kishimoto, Walter Stewart and Geoffrey Fox. For further information, please visit http://www.ggf.org/ggf_rotate_leadership_award_GGF16nom.htm. If you wish to no longer receive this newsletter, please send email to postmaster(a)ggf.org and indicate which list you received this message from (wg-all, grid-announce, ggf-sponsors). Thank you. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF16 Update
by Steve Crumb 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

GGF eNewsletter - January 11, 2006 1. GGF16 Program finalized 2. Special GGF16 Registration and Hotel rates ================ 1. GGF16 Program emphasizes Production Grid Interoperability In addition to the over 50 GGF group sessions and BOFs, the GGF16 program has been finalized and will focus on "Production Grids: The Path to Global Interoperability". In addition to keynotes by Ian Foster and David Snelling, the program will include updates from production grids around the world and workshops focused on bringing these production grids together. Hosted by GRNET (Greek Research and Technology Network), GGF16 will be held at the Divani Caravel Hotel in downtown Athens, Greece on 13-16 February. A full listing of the GGF16 program may be found at: http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_schedule_ggf16.htm 2. GGF16 Registration Incentives *GGF16 Registration Discounted registration is available until February 3rd. Don't wait to join over 400 Grid developers, deployers and practitioners; register today at http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf16.htm. *GGF16 Special Hotel Rates Don't forget to book your hotel reservation now at the GGF16 conference hotel, the Divani Caravel in Athens. The special rate of 120Euro/night won't last long! For more information, visit http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_lodging_ggf16.htm To opt out of this message, please send an email to postmater(a)ggf.org requesting removal. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

GGF eNewsletter - December 15, 2005 1. GGF16 Program to Focus on Production Grid Interoperability 2. Usage Record Draft Specification enters public comment 3. Special GGF16 Registration and Hotel rates ================ 1. GGF16 Program emphasizes Production Grid Interoperability Keynote presentations by Ian Foster and David Snelling lead the program offering at the upcoming GGF16 in Athens, Greece, February 13-16. The event theme is Production Grids: The Path to Global Interoperability. With production grids a reality in nearly every part of the world, GGF16 will take on the next challenge working proactively with the community to enable these Grids to interoperate. Key decision-makers from multiple large-scale grid projects will leverage current experiences to define a simple set of services for routine interoperation between grid projects with the expectation of full interoperability in 4 to 6 target areas by the end of 2006. In a year where GGFs standards activities will be emphasizing interoperability, the GGF16 theme dovetails perfectly with the over 65 group sessions planned in Athens. While the majority of these sessions will involve heads-down specification and best practice work, the program will feature a workshop on the recently published Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) specification. The program will also give insight into how enterprises are moving towards interoperable grids within firms and shared grids between intermediate suppliers and final producers (as in autos or aerospace). A tutorial on "Grid Primer for Managers" will introduce the essential elements of grids, the business value of grids for organizations, and how to take the next step toward leveraging grids for business advantage. GGF16 will also include keynotes and grid program updates organized by event hosts GRNet (Greek Research and Technology Network). GRNets contribution to the program will provide updates on EGEE, Open Science Grid, HELLASGRID, APGrid, Teragrid, DEISA, Nordugrid, and other regional grid activities. A full listing of the GGF16 program may be found at: http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_schedule_ggf16.htm Advanced registration ends this week (December 17) so register today at the GGF web site, http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf16.htm. 2. Five draft specifications in public comment pipeline The public comment "pipeline" just received a new addition bringing the total to five draft recommendations! The Usage Record Format draft joins the WSRF Profile, WS-Agreement, CDDLM API, and SAML for Authorization drafts that are currently available for download and comment. The Usage Record Format document describes a common format for exchanging basic accounting and usage data over the grid. The public comment period is a critical part of GGF's document process and allows the broader grid community to read and comment on draft documents. Visit the public comment portion of GGF's website (http://www.ggf.org/ggf_docs_public.htm) to download and comment on these important drafts. 3. GGF16 Registration Incentives *GGF16 Registration In addition to substantial savings, those individuals who register during the early registration period which expires on December 17, 2005 will be entered into a drawing to take place during the opening session. Mark Linesch will randomly select 5 winners to receive special GGF16 VIP prize packages. Register now at http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf16.htm to become eligible for the drawing! *GGF16 Special Hotel Rates Book your hotel reservation now at the GGF16 conference hotel, the Divani Caravel in Athens. The special rate of 120Euro/night won't last long! http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_lodging_ggf16.htm To opt out of this message, please send an email to postmater(a)ggf.org requesting removal. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum scrumb(a)ggf.org

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NOMCOM 2006: call for volunteers closed
by Joel Replogle 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

A message about NOMCOM from Sven van den Berghe, NOMCOM 2006 Chair: The call for volunteers to serve on NOMCOM 2006 has closed. A list of names is available at www.ggf.org/nomcom. If you have any objections to any of the volunteers please send an email to this year's char at Sven.vandenBerghe(a)uk.fujitsu.com by 06:00 UTC of December 12th 2005. Sven van den Berghe, Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, NOMCOM 2006 Chair. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Joel Replogle - Manager of Standards, Global Grid Forum replogle(a)ggf.org http://www.ggf.org

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GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

GGF eNewsletter 1. JSDL Spec is one of three documents added to GGF's Document Series 2. GGF16 Call for Participation closing soon 3. GGF16 Registration and Housing Deadlines -------------------- 1. JSDL proposed recommendation highlights three new publications to the GGF Document Series GGF's document series continues to grow with the announcement of three new documents: GFD. 56 Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) Specification v1.0 Proposed Recommendation from the JSDL Working Group Authors: A. Anjomshoaa, F. Brisard, M. Drescher, D. Fellows, A. Ly, S. McGough, D. Pulsipher, A. Savva GFD.55 A Survey of Transport Protocols other than "Standard" TCP Informational Document from the Data Transport Research Group Authors: E. He, P. Vicat-Blanc Primet, M. Welzl GFD.54 MyProxy Protocol Experimental Document by Individual Submission J. Basney Please visit http://www.ggf.org/documents to obtain a copies of these documents. 2. GGF16 Call for Community Participation deadline this week! Proposals for the Community Program at GGF16 (Athens, 13-16 February) are being accepted until this Wednesday (30-Nov). The Community Program at GGF16 will offer a series of 30-90 minute talks and panels emphasizing the applications and operations of grids in research and industrial contexts. The Community Program will also consist of half and full-day research workshops and tutorials of standards-based implementations of grid software. Additional background, details, and an online submission form are available at http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_communityInvolvmentProposal.htm. Questions? Please contact communities(a)ggf.org. 3. GGF16 Registration Incentives *GGF16 Registration In addition to substantial savings, those individuals who register during the early registration period which expires on December 17, 2005 will be entered into a drawing to take place during the opening session. Mark Linesch will randomly select 5 winners to receive special GGF16 VIP prize packages. Register now at http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf16.htm to become eligible for the drawing! *GGF16 Special Hotel Rates Book your hotel reservation now at the GGF16 conference hotel, the Divani Caravel in Athens. The special rate of 120Euro/night won't last long! http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_lodging_ggf16.htm To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to postmaster(a)ggf.org requesting removal from the grid-announce list. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum scrumb(a)ggf.org

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Important GGF news
by Linesch, Mark 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Dear GGF members, I wanted to take a moment and tell you about some important news regarding GGF and our liaison with the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA). Don Deutsch, President of EGA will be sending out a similar message to EGA members. Over the past year EGA and GGF have discussed leveraging the strengths of both organizations to deliver greater value to the growing grid community. Today we are announcing that the leadership of the GGF and the EGA Board of Directors have both agreed to explore the possibilities of an expanded collaboration. Teams from both organizations will meet together over the next several weeks to develop a detailed framework for extending the current collaboration while retaining the principles on which both organizations are based. The results from these discussions are not predetermined; both organizations are open to a wide range of outcomes, up to and including merger. We remain committed to advancing the standardization and adoption of grid technologies across all market segments, and to delivering greater value to our respective members. GGF is interested in your comments and in any further questions you might have. Additional information is contained at the following URL: http://www.ggf.org/Announcement/ggf_announce.php You can also send an email to me directly at linesch(a)ggf.org Thanks for your continued support and hard work on behalf of GGF and our mission. All the best, Mark Linesch Chair, Global Grid Forum

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GGF16 Announcements
by Steve Crumb 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

GGF eNewsletter 1. GGF16 Registration Open 2. GGF16 Hotel Reservations 3. GGF16 Community CFP ----------------------- 1. GGF16 Registration Is Now Open Join us in Athens for the 16th Global Grid Forum hosted by Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET). The 4 day meeting will take place at the Divani Caravel Hotel ideally situated in the heart of Athens. GRNET will offer an exciting regional plenary program that will bring together Greek and other European experts in the field of grid and distributed computing. In addition to the regional program, GGF16 will provide an environment to continue the work of our Standards Groups through WG/RG sessions, BoFs and workshops. GGF's community program will continue throughout the week, emphasizing the applications and operation of grids in research and industry settings. The community program will consist of workshops, invited talks, technical tutorials, and demonstrations of standards-based implementations of grid software. For more information and to register please visit http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_ggf16.htm. 2. GGF16 Hotel Reservations Book your hotel room now at the GGF16 conference hotel, the Divani Caravel. GGF has secured the special rate of 120 Euro/night for GGF16 participants. Hotel reservation and information is available at http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/ggf_events_lodging_ggf16.htm. Book early! The hotel reservation deadline is November 30, 2005. 3. GGF16 Community Call for Participation Building on the success of Community Programs at GGF14 and GGF15, the Community Program at GGF16 seeks to build new and strengthen existing communities of interest in GGF. GGF is comprised of a number of "communities of interest" who either are users of grids in their domain or develop innovative approaches to perceived roadblocks to the adoption of grids. Community activities may run in parallel with other GGF16 activities but every attempt will be made in scheduling to minimize unnecessary clashes. Send us your suggestions by visiting us at http://www.ggf.org/GGF16/suggestions/ggf_events_communitySuggestions.php. To unsubscribe from this eNewsletter, please forward this message to "postmaster(a)ggf.org" requesting to opt-out. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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NOMCOM 2006 Call for Volunteers
by Joel Replogle 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

GGF NOMCOM 2006 Call for Volunteers The GGF Nominations Committee 2006 needs your help! We are looking for volunteers for NomCom 2006, the GGF nominating committee that is responsible for recommending candidates to fill open positions on the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). Typically, one third of the GFSG is selected each year. This year we expect to have to fill 12 positions, although this can change due to the creation or elimination of positions by the GFSG, or by resignations, transfers, etc. The provisional list of positions to be filled this year is: VC Standards AD Architecture AD Data AD Infrastructure AD Management AD Security AD Industry Applications AD Major Grid Projects AD Grid Operations AD Community Affairs AD Events AD Finance The nominating process is modelled after IETF RFC 3777, "IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees". IETF RFC 3777 supersedes IETF RFC 2727 which the GGF GFSG adopted, with minor revisions, in 2003. The first phase in the NonCom process is to establish this year's nominating committee; this is being done by this year's NomCom Chair, Sven van den Berghe, along with Dietmar Erwin, past Chair, and Ramin Yahyapour, GFSG liaison. To qualify for the NomCom, a volunteer must have attended 2 of the last 4 GGF meetings. NomCom members are barred from nomination to the GFSG during the year they serve, even if they later resign. Responsibilities and expected time commitment are outlined below (see #2 below), as are the confidentiality needs (see #3 below). Community members who feel they meet these requirements and are interested in helping are encouraged to volunteer. Please e-mail your name, affiliation, telephone number(s), and email address to Sven van den Berghe, Sven.vandenBerghe(a)uk.fujitsu.com, not later than Saturday November 26, 2005 (midnight UTC). Please put "NomCom volunteer" in the subject line. Volunteering for the NomCom is a way in which you can serve the GGF community. We encourage you to help! Best regards, Sven van den Berghe, Chair (non-voting member) Dietmar Erwin, past Chair (non-voting member) Ramin Yahyapour, GFSG liaison (non-voting member) NOMCOM Details 1. Nominating Committee Selection Process ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The call for volunteers will be open for at least 30 days. To qualify as a volunteer, a person must have attended 2 of the last 4 GGF meetings. Note that this deviates from the 3 out of 5 rule in RFC3777. For the NomCom to work as it should, the pool of volunteers from which members are chosen must be as large as possible. The more people who volunteer, the better the chance of obtaining a random yet representative cross section of the GGF population. Once the call for volunteers closes, the list of volunteers will be posted to http://www.ggf.org/nomcom/. The GGF secretariat will then verify the eligibility of each volunteer. The results of the selection will be announced the week of December 13, 2005. Ten (10) NomCom voting members will be chosen at random from the pool of volunteers in accordance with RFC 2777, "Publicly Verifiable Nomcom Random Selection". Two sources of randomness will be used: 1) The runs scored by the batsmen during the 3rd One Day International between New Zealand and Australia played on Saturday 10 December 2005 (as published on www.cricinfo.com) 2) The results of the drawing of UK National Lottery on Saturday 10 December 2005("Lotto" draw number 1040, all 7 balls, results available at www.national-lottery.co.uk) If an insufficient number of people volunteer before November 26th, an extension will be announced and new "sources of randomness" will be posted to the NomCom site. 2. Time Commitment and Responsibilities of NomCom Members ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - A volunteer should be able to commit 2-3 hours per week for at most 8 months (the process will start in January 2006 with the aim of completion by the start of September 2006). The task involves the following activities: - Read candidate statements - Participate in a regular conference call (about 1 hour long, initially fortnightly, rising to weekly at the end of the selection process) - Attend GGF meetings held during selection process. - Conduct interviews with candidates (telephone and face to face) - Speak to GGF participants about potential candidates, the job requirements or the process. 3. Confidentiality ----------------------------------------------------------------------- All NomCom deliberations and supporting information that relates to specific nominees, candidates, and confirmed candidates is confidential. The NomCom members will be exposed to confidential information as a result of their deliberations, their interactions with those they consult, and from those who provide requested supporting information. All members are expected to handle this information in a manner consistent with its sensitivity.

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GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

GGF eNewsletter 1. Roadmap for OGSA Published 2. 15 Documents in Public Comment 3. A look ahead at GGF Events in 2006 4. GGF Sponsors Management Developers Conference ----------------------- 1. Roadmap for OGSA Published GGF recently published the latest contribution from the Open Grid Services Architecture Working Group (OGSA-WG) entitled "Defining the Grid: A Roadmap for OGSA(tm) Standards" (GFD.53). This document provides answers to a number of questions being asked both inside the GGF community and in the broader distributed computing industry including: What are the detailed delivery schedules for OGSA and OGSA-related specifications? What are the dependencies between OGSA specifications and other standards such as key web-services specifications? What is the relationship between the OGSA process, OGSA specifications and profiles, and OGSA software? What does the OGSA brand mean and how are OGSA conformance and compliance measured? What open-source software projects are committed to implementing OGSA standards? The document and other recently published documents may be found at: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_docs_final.htm. 2. 15 Documents in Public Comment 2005 has been an incredibly productive year for GGF as is evidenced by the number of documents currently in public comment. Nine different GGF groups have submitted 15 documents to the GGF Editor and the GGF Steering Group has given initial release to gain comments from the broader community. To see a listing of these documents, download and provide comments, please visit: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_docs_public.htm. 3. A look ahead at GGF Events in 2006 True to its "global" reach, GGF will hold major events in Europe, Asia, and North America next year. From February 13-16, GGF will gather in Athens, Greece for its sixteenth event emphasizing the standards development activities of the forum. This event is being hosted by the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) and will include community and regional updates on grid activities in Greece and across Europe. Just three months later, GGF will again gather in Tokyo, Japan for GGF17, co-located with the Grid World Expo. From May 9-12, GGF groups will meet and a Community Program will be presented. GGF participants can also attend the Grid World exhibit hall and program. Finally, on September 10-14, GGF will team with IDG World Expo and GlobusWORLD to hold its second GridWorld event. This event, tentatively planned for a Washington DC venue, will host GGF standards activities, its growing technical community program, and an enterprise-focused program. 4. GGF Sponsors Management Developers Conference As part of its continued collaborative efforts with other standards bodies, GGF has joined DMTF, SNIA, The Open Group, and a number of other organizations to support the Management Developers Conference in Santa Clara, CA on December 5-8, 2005. The schedule is full of content of interest to many grid enthusiasts such as CIM, WSDM Mapping to CIM, WS-Management, and SMI. The four tracks of the program include Server Management, Network/Telco, Developer, and "DMTF Newbie." For more information, visit: http://mandevcon.com/index.html. To unsubscribe from this eNewsletter, please forward this message to "postmaster(a)ggf.org" requesting to opt-out.

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GridWorld deadlines approaching
by Steve Crumb 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

GGF eNews 1. GridWorld/GGF15 Advanced Registration Deadline Extended 2. Community Program Highlights 3. GridWorld/GGF15 Hotel Deadline Approaching ------------------- 1. GridWorld/GGF15 Advanced Registration Extended to 9 September The deadline for saving $200 on advanced registration for GridWorld/GGF15 (3-6 October, Boston, MA) has been extended to Friday, 9 September. Take advantage of these savings by registering at: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf15.htm. 2. GridWorld/GGF15 Community Program Highlights *Community keynotes from Tony Hey, Vice President, Technical Computing for Microsoft Corporation and Andrew Grimshaw, Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia. *Grid Primer for Managers by GridWise Tech (http://gridwisetech.com/gridprimer) (note: available for additional fee) *Technology updates from Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII), Globus, OGSA-DAI, New Technologies for Science Portals *Workshops, invited talks and panels on technologies and applications including: Security and Privacy Needs of Health Grids, Leveraging Site Infrastructure for Multi-Site Grids, Grid Use Cases, Campus Grids, User Management and Access Control within the Grid, Use of Web Services for Network Monitoring Applications, Building Geographical Information System Grids, Provisioning & Managing Switching Infrastructure as a Grid Resource and Web Services Performance Issues & Research Visit http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_schedule_ggf15.htm for a complete listing of Community activities, abstracts and further opportunities for engagement. 3. GridWorld/GGF15 Hotel Information (Deadline 9 September) Be sure to book your hotel room at the conference hotel, The Boston Park Plaza, by visiting http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_lodging_ggf15.htm. You can also call toll free at (800) 225-2008 in the U.S. and Canada. Outside the U. S. and Canada call (617) 426-2000. Be sure to mention that you are attending GridWorld to receive the $161 per night discounted room rate. Hotel cut-off date is 9 September. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF eNews
by Steve Crumb 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

GGF eNewsletter 1. Community Program for GridWorld/GGF15 Announced 2. GridWorld/GGF15 Registration Deadline Approaching 3. GridWorld/GGF15 Hotel Details 4. Leadership Award Nominations ----------------------------------------- 1. Community Program Announced Community Program sessions include: *Grid for Managers Tutorial (available at an additional fee) *Technology updates from Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII), Globus, OGSA-DAI, New Technologies for Science Portals *Workshops, invited talks and panels on technologies and applications including: Security and Privacy Needs of Health Grids, Leveraging Site Infrastructure for Multi-Site Grids, Grid Use Cases, Campus Grids, User Management and Access Control within the Grid, Use of Web Services for Network Monitoring Applications, Building Geographical Information System Grids, Provisioning & Managing Switching Infrastructure as a Grid Resource and Web Services Performance Issues & Research Visit http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_schedule_ggf15.htm for a complete listing of Community activities, abstracts and further opportunities for engagement. 2. Registration Deadline Advanced registration for GridWorld/GGF15 (3-6 October, Boston) is closing in just a few days. Take advantage of significant savings by registering during the month of August for this exciting event. Register online at: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf15.htm 3. GridWorld/GGF15 Hotel Information Be sure to book your hotel room at the conference hotel, The Boston Park Plaza, by calling toll free at (800) 225-2008 in the U.S. and Canada. Outside the U. S. and Canada call (617) 426-2000. Be sure to mention that you are attending GridWorld to receive the $161 per night discounted room rate. Hotel cut-off date is 7 September. 4. Nominations sought for Leadership Award GGF is seeking nominations for future recipients of the GGF Leadership Award. The first Leadership Award was presented to Hiro Kishimoto of Fujitsu at GGF14 in Chicago. For further information, please visit http://www.ggf.org/ggf_rotate_leadership_award.htm. To opt out of receiving future GGF eNewsletters, please contact postmaster(a)ggf.org. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

GGF eNewsletter August 8, 2005 1. OGSA-RSS-WG Approved 2. GridWorld/GGF15 Registration Savings ------------------ 1. GFSG Approves OGSA-RSS-WG The Open Grid Services Resource Selection Service Working Group (OGSA-RSS-WG) was recently approved by the GFSG. The OGSA-RSS-WG will provide protocols and interface definitions for the Selection Services portion of the Execution Management Services (EMS) part of the Open Grid Services Architecture. The group's email list is ogsa-rss-wg(a)ggf.org and its GridForge project can be found at: http://forge.ggf.org/projects/ogsa-rss-wg. 2. GridWorld/GGF15 (3-6 October, 2005, Boston, MA, USA) Advanced registration for GridWorld/GGF15 (3-6 October, Boston, MA) is open! GGF participants receive a $300 discount from the standard GridWorld pricing and registration fees are discounted an additional $200 if you register in August. Take advantage of these significant savings (up to $500) by registering today at: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf15.htm. GridWorld/GGF15 will feature three concurrent programs: an Enterprise Program (4-5 Oct.), a Community Program (3-6 Oct.), and GGF Group Sessions (3-6 Oct.). For more information on these programs, please visit: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_schedule_ggf15.htm. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

GGF eNewsletter July 20, 2005 1. GGF Document Series Updates 2. GridWorld/GGF15 Overview 3. GridWorld/GGF15 Registration Open ----------------------------- 1. GGF Document Series Updates One document has been published to the GGF Document Series and three other documents have entered a Public Comment period. GFD.49 Peer-to-peer Requirements on the OGSA Framework (OGSAP2P-RG) Authors/editor: Karan Bhatia Document may be obtained at: http://www.ggf.org/documents/GFD.49.pdf Public Comment Documents: All are invited to obtain these documents and provide comments at: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_docs_public.htm A. Policy Managment Authority Model Charter (CAOPS-WG) Authors/editor: R. Cowles, T. Genovese, P. Gietz, M. Helm (Comments due by July 29, 2005) B. Open Grid Services Architecture Roadmap (OGSA-WG) Authors/editor: H. Kishimoto, J. Treadwell (Comments due by July 29, 2005) C. Job Submission Description Language Specification v1.0 (JSDL-WG) Author/editors: A. Anjomshoaa et al. (comments due by September 10, 2005) 2. GridWorld/GGF15 Overview (3-6 October, 2005, Boston, MA, USA) Building on the success of the Enterprise program offered at GGF12 (Brussels, September 2004), GGF has teamed with IDG World Expo to develop a follow-on event called GridWorld. The event will consist of an Enterprise Program (4-5 October), a Community Program (3-6 October), and the customary [GGF15] group sessions (3-6 October). The Enterprise Program, themed "Grid in Action: Explore. Adopt. Deploy", will contain keynote presentations and panels exploring the benefits of grid technologies, how to adopt grids via a pilot project, and how to deploy grids more broadly in an enterprise. Attendees will hear grid deployment experiences from companies in several industries including entertainment, finance, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, manufacturing, semiconductor design, and others. A link to the preliminary program is available at: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_schedule_ggf15.htm The Community Program emphasizes the applications and operation of grids in eScience and industrial contexts at a more technical level. The program will consist of workshops, invited talks, technical tutorials, and demonstrations of standards-based implementations of grid software. The complete Call for Community Participation, along with an online submission form, can be accessed via http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_communityInvolvment_ggf15.htm. For more information about GGF Community activities, please email communities(a)ggf.org. At every GGF event, including this inaugural GridWorld, GGF groups meet to gather requirements, discuss best practices and advance grid specifications toward publication. As a result, the customary "GGF15" group sessions will be offered in addition to the Enterprise and Community Programs. 3. Registration for GridWorld/GGF15 Open Registration for GridWorld/GGF15 (3-6 October, Boston, MA) is now open! GGF participants receive a $300 discount from the standard GridWorld pricing and registration fees are discounted an additional $200 if you register before September 2. Take advantage of these significant savings (up to $500) by registering today at: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_regstrtn_ggf15.htm. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF14 Deadlines approaching
by Steve Crumb 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

1. GGF14 Hotel Reservations 2. GGF14 Registration 3. Introduction to Grids Tutorial ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. GGF's special room rates at the Westin have been extended until Sunday, June 19th. Please note that the government rate rooms are sold out but our GGF discounted rooms are still available. Lodging information can be found at http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_lodging.htm. Book today, time is running out! 2. GGF14 Registration Register for GGF14 today! Full registration prices end on June 21st. Over 80 group sessions have been scheduled as well as a robust, community-oriented track with topics like: - Network-Centric Operations - Education Communities and the Grid - Applying Grid Computing Research to Commercial Information Retrieval Applications - Space-Related Grid Applications - Semantic Grids and the Agents Community - Supporting New Grid Communities - "Why, how and when to invest in working with GGF"- Improving Interaction between Grid Standards and Projects Community Workshop - Grid Applications: From Early Adopters to Mainstream Users - Healthcare Security and Privacy: Is GGF doing enough to meet the needs of the Healthcare Industry? - Globus Toolkit Version 4: Status and Experiences Community Workshop - Science Gateways: Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources You can find a link to the online schedule at: http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_schedule.htm. 3. Introduction to Grids Tutorial One of the program highlights of GGF14 is a "Grid Primer for Managers" to be presented by GridWise Technologies on Monday, June 27, from 1:00-5:00 pm. This half-day management-level Grid technology tutorial is primarily focused on the newcomers to the Grid industry. This tutorial will answer the questions: - What is Grid computing? Why and how is it useful in business? - What is Grid technology? Is it usable? What is the state of the market? - What does a Grid architecture and Grid application mean? - Why and how should I migrate to a Grid architecture? - Why should I grid-enable my software product, and how do I go about it? - What are the solutions existing on the market, and how do I choose among them? Participation in this tutorial requires separate registration and carries a $90 fee. You may either add this tutorial to your existing registration for GGF14 or may register for the tutorial separately. To register, please visit: http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?EventId=23544 Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF14 Updates
by Steve Crumb 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

1. GGF14 Registration 2. GGF14 Hotel Reservations 3. Grid Primer for Managers Tutorial ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. GGF14 Registration Registration for GGF14 in Chicago, June 27-30 at the Westin Michigan Avenue, continues to be open. Over 80 group sessions have been scheduled as well as a robust, community-oriented track with topics like: - Network-Centric Operations - Education Communities and the Grid - Applying Grid Computing Research to Commercial Information Retrieval Applications - Space-Related Grid Applications - Semantic Grids and the Agents Community - Supporting New Grid Communities - "Why, how and when to invest in working with GGF"- Improving Interaction between Grid Standards and Projects Community Workshop - Grid Applications: From Early Adopters to Mainstream Users - Healthcare Security and Privacy: Is GGF doing enough to meet the needs of the Healthcare Industry? - Globus Toolkit Version 4: Status and Experiences Community Workshop - Science Gateways: Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources For more information on the GGF14 schedule, please visit http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_schedule.htm. 2. GGF's special room rates at the Westin have been extended until Sunday, June 12th. Be sure to book your hotel room today! Lodging information can be found at http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next_lodging.htm. 3. Grid Primer for Managers Tutorial One of the program highlights of GGF14 is a "Grid Primer for Managers" to be presented by GridWise Technologies on Monday, June 27, from 1:00-5:00 pm. This half-day management-level Grid technology tutorial is primarily focused on the newcomers to the Grid industry. No technical experience is necessary to attend the tutorial, however some general background in information technology is preferred. The workshop will consist of presentations on the characteristics of a grid, examples of existing solutions and installations, and live demonstrations of Grid products. This tutorial will answer the questions: - What is Grid computing? Why and how is it useful in business? - What is Grid technology? Is it usable? What is the state of the market? - What does a Grid architecture and Grid application mean? - Why and how should I migrate to a Grid architecture? - Why should I grid-enable my software product, and how do I go about it? - What are the solutions existing on the market, and how do I choose among them? Participation in this tutorial requires separate registration and carries a $90 fee. You may either add this tutorial to your existing registration for GGF14 or may register for the tutorial separately. To register, please visit: http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?EventId=23544 Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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GGF14 Updates
by Steve Crumb 10 May '05

10 May '05

Global Grid Forum's next event, GGF14, will be held at the Westin Michigan Avenue hotel in downtown Chicago from 27-30 June, 2005. Please note the Monday (27 June) start. Registration (open now) and housing details can be accessed via http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next.htm. In addition to Working Group, Research Group and Birds of a Feather sessions to be held from Tuesday through Thursday afternoon, the GGF14 schedule will contain a diverse set of workshops, presentations and panels on the Community Program Track from Monday to Wednesday. The goal of this community track is to build new and strengthen existing communities of interest in GGF. GGF14 Preliminary Program highlights include--- * Workshop on Grid Applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users Jointly organized by: GGF Application Developers and Users Research Group (APPS-RG) GGF Production Grid Management Research Group (PGM-RG) * Healthcare Security and Privacy: Is GGF Doing enough to meet the needs of the Healthcare industry? Workshop organized by the Life Sciences Grid Research Group (LSG-RG). * Why, How and When to Invest in Working with GGF - Improving Interaction Between Grid Standards and Projects (Community Workshop organized by the NextGRID Project) * Globus Toolkit Version 4: Status and Experiences (Community Workshop organized by the Globus Alliance) * Practical Grids demo/overview - WSDM (Community track demonstration and overview) * Science Gateways: Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources (Community Workshop organized by the TeraGrid Project) * A "Grid Primer for Managers" offered by Gridwise Technologies (Tutorial) GGF14 Plenary sessions include --- * Opening Plenary (Tuesday, 28 June, 9:00am) * GGF Town Hall Lunch (Wednesday, 29 June, 12:30pm) * GGF14 Closing Plenary (Thursday, 30 June, 1:30pm). Stay tuned to www.ggf.org for a complete preliminary program and for additional information about key standards milestones being reached at GGF14. This event has something for everyone, from the beginner to the seasoned grid technologist. Register today (http://www.ggf.org/ggf_events_next.htm) for reduced rates. For more information, contact registration(a)ggf.org. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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May GGF eNewsletter
by Steve Crumb 02 May '05

02 May '05

GGF eNewsletter May 2005 1. New Groups Approved 2. GGF14 3. Telco Focus Session at Supercomm 4. GGF Operating Model Enhancements 5. Spring Grid Connections Newsletter 6. NOMCOM Update 1. New Groups Approved Two new groups have been approved by the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). First, the OGSA-D-WG was formed to develop the data architecture associated with OGSA. Spawned from the OGSA-WG Data design team, Dave Berry (National eScience Center, UK) and Allen Luniewski (IBM) will co-chair this new working group. The email list is ogsa-d-wg(a)ggf.org and the GridForge project will be available soon: http://forge.ggf.org/projects/ogsa-d-wg. Second, the ByteIO-WG was formed to define a Web Service interface for reading and writing sequences of bytes into various sources and destinations. Also spawned from the OGSA-WG Data design team, Mark Morgan (University of Virginia) and Neil Chue Hong (EPCC, University of Edinburgh) will co-chair this new working group. The email list is byteio-wg(a)ggf.org and the GridForge project will be available soon: http://forge.ggf.org/projects/byteio-wg. 2. GGF14 June 26-29, 2005 are the dates for GGF14 in Chicago, IL, USA. Registration will open on May 3 for this standards and community oriented event. The call for participation for workshops is open until May 6 and for community-oriented talks, May 11 (see http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF14/GGF14.htm) Plan now to attend. 3. Telco Focus at Supercomm 2005 GGF will continue its focus on grid technologies and their impact on the Telecommunication industry with a focus session during the upcoming Supercomm 2005 (Chicago, June 6-9). The Monday, June 6, session will feature representatives from numerous regional and national telco operators and vendors. Details of the meeting and the agenda will be made available soon on the GGF website (www.ggf.org) For more information, contact communities(a)ggf.org. 4. GGF Operating Model Enhancements Introduced by Mark Linesch at GGF13 in Seoul, the GFSG has recommended a set of enhancements to the current GGF operating model. A document describing these recommendations is available for download at: http://www.ggf.org/documents/Drafts/GGF_Prop_Op_Model.pdf Comments are welcome and can be sent directly to Mark at linesch(a)ggf.org. 5. Spring Grid Connections In the Spring edition of the Grid Connections newsletter (attached), Mark Linesch, David Snelling, and Geoffrey Fox discuss the Standards and Community aspects of the GGF mission. 6. NOMCOM Update The Global Grid Forum (GGF) Nominations Committee is soliciting nominations for the open positions on the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). You can read the details at http://www.gridforum.org/nomcom. A unique opportunity exists now to become part of the new leadership team of GGF during 2005. In addition to continuing our important standards efforts, we are working to strengthen and expand communities of interest in GGF. Also, we are introducing new opportunities for leadership in the GGF operations. Please consider who you would like to see in the GGF leadership and send nominations to nomcom(a)ggf.org. Self nominations are also encouraged. The deadline is Friday, May 20, 2005. Steve Crumb Executive Director, Global Grid Forum +1 630-252-8610 (Office) +1 630-915-3324 (Cell) scrumb(a)ggf.org

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Nominations for Grid Forum Steering Group
by Stacey Giannese 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Nominations for Grid Forum Steering Group The Global Grid Forum (GGF) Nominations Committee (NOMCOM) is soliciting nominations for the open positions on the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). You can submit your candidate nominations to nomcom(a)ggf.org or to any of the NOMCOM members listed below. Self-nominations are accepted. The deadline for nominations is midnight Friday, May 20, 2005 UTC. GGF's mission is to "Lead the pervasive adoption of grid computing for research and industry". The key themes of the GGF mission are to enable "Pervasive Adoption", for both "Research and Industry" through "Standards" development and the continued build-out of our international "Community" supported by effective "Operations". In order to achieve this mission, GGF is being asked to step up to a new level of leadership. A unique opportunity exits now to become part of the new leadership team of GGF during 2005. The following GFSG positions are open: Standards Function: . Vice Chair Standards . Area Director (AD) Infrastructure . AD Compute . AD Applications . AD Standards Liaison Community Function: . Vice chair Communities . AD Research Applications . AD Industrial Applications . AD Grid Operations . AD Technology Innovators . AD Major Grid Projects . AD Community Affairs Operations Function: . AD Marketing . AD Events . AD Finance . AD Sponsorship . AD Information Technology These positions arise from the proposed new GGF management structure. The current draft titled "Global Grid Forum - Changes to GGF Operating Model" can be found on GridForge. The proposed structure and the open positions have to be reviewed by the membership and finally approved by GFSG. Candidates should be flexible to assume different positions in the Steering Group to meet the strategic needs of GGF Terms begin upon the announcement of selections at GGF15 (in the fall) and are usually for three years. So that, in a normal year, 1/3 of the GFSG terms would be expected to expire. However, due to the restructuring there are many more positions open this year. In order to retain the 1/3 expiration ratio some positions filled this year will be open for one or two years only. It is possible that not all of positions will need to be filled, due to the creation or elimination of positions by the GFSG, resignations, transfers, etc. The following members of GFSG have terms that expire this year: Peter Clarke, AD Data Cees DeLaat, AD Peer to Peer Bill Nitzberg, AD Scheduling and Resource Management Ken Klingenstein, AL Dennis Gannon, AL Charlie Catlett, previous Chair To make a nomination, send an email to nomcom(a)ggf.org or contact anyone of the members of the nominating committee below. We also welcome your views on the effectiveness of a position, including past performance of incumbents. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED TO NOMCOM WILL BE KEPT IN CONFIDENCE AND WILL BE USED ONLY DURING DELIBERATIONS OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE. Many NOMCOM members will be at GGF13. We welcome your nominations or views at that time. NOMCOM 2005 Committee members are: Jill Arnold <jillar(a)internet2.edu> Karlo Berket <kberket(a)lbl.gov> Robert Cowles <rdc(a)slac.stanford.edu> Dan Gunter <dkgunter(a)lbl.gov> Tomasz Haupt <haupt(a)CAVS.MsState.Edu> Darcy Quesnel <darcy.quesnel(a)canarie.ca> Volker Rohleder <vrohlede(a)de.ibm.com> Thomas Soddemann <Thomas.Soddemann(a)rzg.mpg.de> Sven van den Berghe <Sven.vandenBerghe(a)uk.fujitsu.com> Wolfgang Ziegler Wolfgang.Ziegler(a)scai.fraunhofer.de NOMCOM 2005 non-voting members Dietmar Erwin <d.erwin(a)fz-juelich.de> (Chair) Beth Plale <plale(a)cs.indiana.edu> (previous Chair) David Martin <martinde(a)us.ibm.com> (GFSG liaison) Dietmar Erwin NOMCOM chair 2005 ****************************** Stacey Giannese Manager of Standard Activities Global Grid Forum (Phone) 630-252-6444 (Cell) 708-935-2951 (Fax) 630-252-4466

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Registration Deadline Tomorrow March 4th
by Stacey Giannese 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

One day left to register for GGF13 at discounted rate! Don't miss your opportunity to take part in over 58 WG/RG Sessions, BoFs, Workshops and Tutorials. An informative regional plenary program will provide the latest on grid activities in Asia-Pacific and global collaboration. Don't pass up this opportunity to network with your peers in Seoul, Korea. Register now at www.ggf.org. Stacey Giannese Manager of Standard Activities Global Grid Forum (Phone) 630-252-6444 (Cell) 708-935-2951 (Fax) 630-252-4466

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Registration Deadline March 4th
by Stacey Giannese 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Last week to register for GGF13 at discounted rate! Don't miss your opportunity to take part in over 58 WG/RG Sessions, BoFs, Workshops and Tutorials. An informative regional plenary program will provide the latest on grid activities in Asia-Pacific and global collaboration. Don't pass up this opportunity to network with your peers in Seoul, Korea. Register now at www.ggf.org. Stacey Giannese Manager of Standard Activities Global Grid Forum (Phone) 630-252-6444 (Cell) 708-935-2951 (Fax) 630-252-4466

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GGF13 Full Registration
by Stacey Giannese 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration 2. GGF13 Hotel Reservations 3. GGF13 Workshops 4. GGF13 Tutorials ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. Our lower cost registration period end on March 4 so please take advantage of these lower rates for GGF 13! GGF13 in Seoul, Korea, is being hosted by KISTI and the Grid Forum Korea. Workshops and tutorials begin on March 13 and additional workshops and group sessions will run from 14-16 March. A special ending plenary session on March 16 will wrap up the week's accomplishments and provide a glimpse of what can be expected at the GGF14 in Chicago, June 26-29. 2. GGF13 Hotel Reservations Limited space at the GGF13 rate is available at the conference hotel, the Lotte Hotel in Seoul. Fax your hotel reservation form directly to the Lotte today. More information can be found at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/lodging.htm. 3. Workshops Sunday, March 13 9am-6pm - "Asia Grid Workshop" http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_Asia_Grid_Summit.pdf - "Healthcare Applications on Grids: Moving Healthcare (Applications) onto Grids" organized by Life Science Grid WG Agenda: http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_LSG_Workshop.pdf - "Grid Economy Workshop" Call for Papers http://www.gridforumkorea.org/gecon2005 The 2nd Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2005) http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_Call_Grid_Economy_WS.pdf Monday, March 14 10:30am-6:30pm "The Usable Grid Workshop" organized by Application Developers and Users RG http://www.cs.vu.nl/ggf/apps-rg/meetings/ggf13.html Tuesday, March 15 9am-6pm "e-Science Workshop" http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_eScience_Workshop.pdf 4. Tutorials (Sunday, 13 March) More information is available at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/GGF13_Tutorials_b.htm Tutorial 1 - OGSA-DAI Developers (Time: 9am-6pm) The UK-based "Open Grid Service Architecture - Data Access and Integration" (OGSA-DAI) project is producing middleware components to access and integrate data through uniform Web Services for Grid environments. This tutorial will provide an introduction to the functional capabilities of data services as seen in the current OGSA-DAI release 5.0. In particular, we will be covering two subjects of importance to developers: the activity framework and the client toolkit. Tutorial 2 - Distributed Resource Management Application API (Time: 9am-1:30pm) DRMAA tutorial will start with a short introduction to distributed and parallel processing. Differences and similarities to OpenMP, explicit threads, MPI, Globus toolkit GRAM, and other remote job submission realizations will be given. The introductory part will be followed with a brief introduction to DRMAA, its motivation and purpose. The more technical part of the presentation will cover DRMAA programming interface and DRMAA job attributes.

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GGF13 Advance Registration Extended until February 3rd
by Stacey Giannese 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration Advance Registration Extended 2. GGF13 Workshops 3. GGF13 Tutorials 4. Public Comment Documents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. GGF13 Advance Registration Extended until February 3rd, 2005 GGF13 Advance Registration has been extended until February 3rd 2005!! Hosted by KISTI and GFK March 13-16, 2005 in Seoul, Korea. Regional and Global Workshops and Tutorials will be offered. Don't miss your chance to take part in these informative and exciting sessions! Visit http://www.ggf.org/default.htm>http://www.ggf.org for more details. 2. Workshops Sunday, March 13 9am-6pm - "Asia Grid Workshop" - "Healthcare Applications on Grids Moving Healthcare (Applications) onto Grids" organized by Life science Grid WG Agenda: http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_LSG_Workshop.pdf - "Grid Economy Workshop" Call for Papers http://www.gridforumkorea.org/gecon2005 The 2nd Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2005) Monday, March 14 10:30am-6:30pm "The Usable Grid Workshop" organized by Application Developers and Users RG Tuesday, March 15 9am-6pm "e-Science Workshop" 3. Tutorials (Sunday, March 13th ) More information is available at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/GGF13_Tutorials_b.htm Tutorial 1 - OGSA-DAI Developers (Time: 9am-6pm) Tutorial 2 - Distributed Resource Management Application API (Time: 9am-1:30pm) 4. 4 Documents in Public Comment (http://www.ggf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Public_Comment_Documents.htm) A. WS-Agreement Specification Recommendation (GRAAP-WG) Authors: A. Andrieux, K. Czajkowski, A. Dan, K. Keahey, H. Ludwig, J. Pruyne, J. Rofrano, S. Tuecke, M. Xu B. Peer-To-Peer Requirements On The Open Grid Services Architecture Framework Informational (OGSAP2P-RG) Author: K. Bhatia C. Authority Recognition Informational (ARRG-RG) Authors: P. Madsen, D. Chadwick D. GridFTP v2 Protocol Description Recommendations (GridFTP-WG) Authors: B. Allcock, I. Mandrichenko, T. Perelmutov

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GGF13 Advance Registration Ends January 21
by Stacey Giannese 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests 3. GGF13 Workshops 4. GGF13 Tutorials 5. Public Comment Documents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. GGF13 Advance Registration Deadline GGF13 Advance Registration ends January 21st 2005!! Hosted by KISTI and GFK March 13-16 , 2005 Seoul, Korea. Regional and Global Workshops and Tutorials will be offered. Don't miss your chance to take part in these informative and exciting sessions! Visit http://www.ggf.org/default.htm for more details. 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests Session Scheduling is NOW open so hurry and request your working session!! Deadline for scheduling requests is Friday, 18 February 2005. Deadline for AD Hoc/ Charter Discussion BOF's is Friday, 11 February 2005. Visit http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/WG_Chairs_Update.htm for instructions on how to schedule a session. 3. Workshops Detailed Information will be available shortly at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/schedule.htm - "Asia Grid Workshop" - "The Usable Grid Workshop" organized by Application Developers and Users RG - "Grid Economy Workshop" Call for Papers http://www.gridforumkorea.org/gecon2005 The 2nd Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2005) - "Healthcare Applications on Grids Moving Healthcare (Applications) onto Grids" organized by Life science Grid WG Agenda: http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_LSG_Workshop.pdf - "e-Science Workshop" 4. Tutorials (Sunday, March 13th) More detailed information will be available soon at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/schedule.htm Tutorial 1 - OGSA-DAI Tutorial 2 - Distributed Resource Management Application API 5. Public Comment Documents (http://www.ggf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Public_Comment_Documents.htm) A. WS-Agreement Specification Recommendation (GRAAP-WG) Authors: A. Andrieux, K. Czajkowski, A. Dan, K. Keahey, H. Ludwig, J. Pruyne, J. Rofrano, S. Tuecke, M. Xu B. Peer-To-Peer Requirements On The Open Grid Services Architecture Framework Informational (OGSAP2P-RG) Author: K. Bhatia

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GGF13 Registration Now Open
by Stacey Giannese 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration is Now Open 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests 3. Recently Published Documents 4. Student Travel Scholarship 5. IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. GGF13 Registration is Now Open GGF13 Advance Registration ends January 21th 2005!! Hosted by KISTI and GFK March 13-16 , 2005 Seoul, Korea. Regional and Global Workshops and Tutorials will be offered. Don't miss your chance to take part in these informative and exciting sessions! Visit http://www.ggf.org/default.htm for more details. 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests Session Scheduling is NOW open so hurry and request your working session!! Deadline for scheduling requests is Friday, 18 February 2005. Deadline for AD Hoc/ Charter Discussion BOF's is Friday, 11 February 2005. Visit http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/WG_Chairs_Update.htm for instructions on how to schedule a session. 3. Recently Published Documents Visit http://www.ggf.org/documents/final.htm GFD.40 "Guidelines for IP version independence in GGF specifications" an informational document 4. Student Travel Scholarship 6 Student Scholars will be selected from the A/P region, the US and Europe. The scholarship will include limited travel reimbursement and hotel accommodations in return for onsite assistance with the GGF13 program. Please go to http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/scholar.htm for more details on how to apply. The deadline for applications is January 24th! 5. Call for Papers - IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14) For more detailed information please visit: http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/hpdc2005/ GENERAL CHAIR - Andrew Grimshaw, Virginia, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS- Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA and Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA HPDC is the premier conference for grid and high performance distributed computing systems. HPDC combines the advances in research and technologies in high speed networks, software, distributed computing and parallel processing to deliver high-performance, large-scale and cost-effective computational, storage and communication capabilities to a wide range of applications. The intent of this meeting is to provide a forum in which researchers report on new ideas and technical insights, application teams express the challenges of constructing wide area or scalable high performance applications, and technology creators report on future developments.

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GGF13 Registration Now Open
by Stacey Giannese 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration is Now Open 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests 3. Recently Published Documents 4. Student Travel Scholarship 5. IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. GGF13 Registration is Now Open GGF13 Advance Registration ends January 21th 2005!! Hosted by KISTI and GFK March 14-17 , 2005 Seoul, Korea. Visit http://www.ggf.org/default.htm for more details. 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests Session Scheduling is NOW open so hurry and request your working session!! Deadline for scheduling requests is Friday, 18 February 2005. Deadline for AD Hoc/ Charter Discussion BOF's is Friday, 11 February 2005. Visit http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/WG_Chairs_Update.htm for instructions on how to schedule a session. 3. Recently Published Documents Visit http://www.ggf.org/documents/final.htm GFD.42, "Authorization Glossary" an information document GFD.43, "Security Requirements of Advanced Collaborative Environments (ACEs)" an informational document 4. Student Travel Scholarship 6 Student Scholars will be selected from the A/P region, the US and Europe. The scholarship will include limited travel reimbursement and hotel accommodations in return for onsite assistance with the GGF13 program. Please go to http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/scholar.htm for more details on how to apply. The deadline for applications is January 24th! 5. Call for Papers - IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14) For more detailed information please visit: http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/hpdc2005/ GENERAL CHAIR - Andrew Grimshaw, Virginia, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS- Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA and Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA HPDC is the premier conference for grid and high performance distributed computing systems. HPDC combines the advances in research and technologies in high speed networks, software, distributed computing and parallel processing to deliver high-performance, large-scale and cost-effective computational, storage and communication capabilities to a wide range of applications. The intent of this meeting is to provide a forum in which researchers report on new ideas and technical insights, application teams express the challenges of constructing wide area or scalable high performance applications, and technology creators report on future developments.

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GGF NOMCOM Members 2005
by Stacey Giannese 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

GGF NOMCOM members 2005 The following ten volunteers have been selected as voting members for the GGF Nominations Committee for 2005 Jill Arnold Karlo Berket Robert Cowles Dan Gunter Tomasz Haupt Darcy Quesnel Volker Rohleder Thomas Soddemann Sven van den Berghe Wolfgang Ziegler The three non-voting members are: Dietmar Erwin (Chair) Beth Plale (Chair 2004) David Martin (GFSG liaison) The NOMCOM will start in January 2005 to solicit nomination to fill the open positions in the GFSG. Dietmar Erwin NOMCOM Chair 2005 Forschungszentrum Juelich Tel: +49-2461-61-6412 ZAM Fax: +49-2461-61-6656 D-52425 Juelich E-mail: D.Erwin(a)fz-juelich.de Stacey Giannese Manager of Community Activities Global Grid Forum (Phone) 630-252-6444 (Cell) 708-935-2951 (Fax) 630-252-4466

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GGF13 Registration Now Open
by Stacey Giannese 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration is Now Open 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests 3. Recently Published Documents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. GGF13 Registration is Now Open GGF13 Advance Registration ends January 21th 2005!! Hosted by KISTI and GFK March 14-17 , 2005 Seoul, Korea. Visit http://www.ggf.org/default.htm for more details. 2. GGF13 Scheduling Requests Session Scheduling is NOW open so hurry and request your working session!! Deadline for scheduling requests is Friday, 18 February 2005. Deadline for AD Hoc/ Charter Discussion BOF's is Friday, 11 February 2005. Visit http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/WG_Chairs_Update.htm for instructions on how to schedule a session. 3. Recently Published Documents Visit http://www.ggf.org/documents/final.htm GFD.39 "Applications and Programming Tools" Informational Document Author: T. Kielmann GFD.41 "Survey of IPv4 Dependencies in Global Grid Forum Specifications" Informational Document Author: R. Sofia

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NOMCOM Update
by Stacey Giannese 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

First Announcement of 2005 GGF NOMCOM members. The following ten volunteers have been selected from the list of candidates by running the reference code described in RFC 2777 using the winning numbers of the German national lottery of December 11, 2004 (see www.lotto.de) The winning numbers are: 3, 7, 9, 33, 35, 42. The order of selection is as follows (numbers in parentheses gives the position on the candidate list): Berket, Carlo (6) Rohleder, Volker (1) Sodemann, Thomas (10) Gunter, Dan (2) Haupt, Tomasz (3) Arnold, Jill (12) Cowles, Robert (11) Van den Berghe, Sven (5) Quesnel, Darcy (8) Ziegler, Wolfgang (7) The community may challenge this selection within one week after the announcement of the list. The challenge must be made in writing (email is acceptable) to the Chair. (D.Erwin(a)fz-juelich.de) Signed: December 14, 2004 Dietmar Erwin NOMCOM Chair 2005 Forschungszentrum Juelich Tel: +49-2461-61-6412 ZAM Fax: +49-2461-61-6656 D-52425 Juelich E-mail: D.Erwin(a)fz-juelich.de ************************************** Stacey Giannese Manager of Community Activities Global Grid Forum (Phone) 630-252-6444 (Cell) 708-935-2951 (Fax) 630-252-4466

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GGF NOMCOM Volunteer Results
by Stacey Giannese 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

GGF NOMCOM 2005 Call for Volunteers 1. Rohleder, Volker 2. Gunter, Dan 3. Haupt, Tomasz 4. Jagatheesan, Arun 5. Van den Berghe, Sven 6. Berket, Carlo 7. Ziegler, Wolfgang 8. Quesnel, Darcy 9. Kunze, Marcel 10. Sodemann, Thomas 11. Cowles, Robert 12. Arnold, Jill 13. Deolaliker, Vikas The volunteers listed above are all eligible. The selection process will be held the week of December 6, 2004 and the results announced the week of December 13, 2004. Ten (10) NomCom voting members will be chosen at random from the pool of volunteers in accordance with RFC 2777, "Publicly Verifiable Nomcom Random Selection". The random number seed used in the selection software (available upon request) will be the ordered concatenation of the winning numbers from the drawing of the German National Lotto on Saturday, December 11, 2004. The winning numbers are posted at: <http://www.lotto.de> GFSG members whose terms are up are: 1) Peter Clarke, Area Director DATA 2) Cees De Laat, Area Director Peer-to-Peer 3) Bill Nitzberg, Area Director Scheduling and Resource Management 4) Ken Klingenstein, At Large Member 5) Dennis Gannon, At Large Member Best regards, Dietmar Erwin, d.erwin(a)fz-juelich.de, Chair (non-voting member) Beth Plale, past Chair (non-voting member) David Martin, GFSG liaison (non-voting member) Stacey Giannese Manager of Community Activities Global Grid Forum (Phone) 630-252-6444 (Cell) 708-935-2951 (Fax) 630-252-4466

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GGF Nomcom - Reminder: Call for Volunteers closes December 4
by Stacey Giannese 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Dear Colleage(s), This is the last opportunity to volunteer for the GGF Nominations Committee for 2005. It is very important that we have as wide as possible representation of the GGF members. For further information see http://www.ggf.org/nomcom/index_b_new.htm Please send me (d.erwin(a)fz-juelich.de) an email if you wish to volunteer or if you have additional questions. Mit freundlichen Gruessen With best regards Dietmar Erwin GGF NOMCOM Chair 2005 Forschungszentrum Juelich Tel: +49-2461-61-6412 ZAM Fax: +49-2461-61-6656 D-52425 Juelich E-mail: D.Erwin(a)fz-juelich.de

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GGF News
by Stacey Giannese 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Published Documents (Final) 2. Documents in Public Comment 3. GGF14 and GGF15 Venues and Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Published Documents (Final) http://www.ggf.org/documents/final.htm Two Informational documents have been published as of November 23, 2004 * GFD.37, "Networking Issues for Grid Infrastructure" GHPN-RG Editors: V. Sander * GFD.38, "Conceptual Grid Authorization Framework and Classification" AuthZ-WG Editors: M. Lorch, B. Cowles, R. Baker, L. Gommans, P. Madsen, A. McNab 2. Documents in Public Comment http://www.ggf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Public_Comment_Documents.htm One Community Practice document as entered a 60 day public comment period. * Policy Management Authority Model Charter (CAOPs-WG) Editors: R. Cowles,T. Genovese, P. Gietz, M. Helm 3. GGF14 and GGF15 Venues and Dates The dates of all 2005 events have been finalized. On 14-17 March, GGF will be holding GGF13 in Seoul, South Korea. GGF14 will be held in downtown Chicago, IL US on 26-29 June 2005. Both GGF13 and GGF14 are scheduled to be "group-only" events, which focuses on workshops and working group and research group sessions. The dates for GGF15 have been set for 9-12 October 2005 with Boston, MA US being the probable venue. This event will likely be GGF's global plenary event, but working groups and research groups will also meet.

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Reminder: GGF NOMCOM 2005 Call for Volunteers
by Stacey Giannese 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

GGF NOMCOM 2005 Call for Volunteers The GGF Nominations Committee 2005 needs your help! We seek volunteers for NomCom 2005, the GGF nominating committee responsible for recommending candidates to fill positions on the Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG) of members whose terms are expiring. Typically, one third of the GFSG is selected each year. It is possible that the NomCom will have to fill more or fewer slots than this, due to the creation or elimination of positions by the GFSG, or by resignations, transfers, etc. GFSG members whose terms are up are: Peter Clarke, Area Director DATA; Cees De Laat, Area Director Peer-to-Peer; Bill Nitzberg, Area Director Scheduling and Resource Management; Ken Klingenstein, Director At Large; Dennis Gannon, Director At Large. The nominating process is modeled after IETF RFC 3777, "IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees". IETF RFC 3777 supersedes IETF RFC 2727. The GGF GFSG adopted IETF RFC2727, with minor revisions, in 2003. The first phase in the process is to establish this year's nominating committee, and that is being done by this year's NomCom Chair, Dietmar Erwin, along with Beth Plale, past Chair, and David Martin, GFSG liaison. The 2005 nominating committee selection process is outlined below (see #1 below). To qualify as a volunteer, a person must have attended 2 of the last 4 GGF meetings. NomCom members are barred from nomination during the year they serve, even if they later resign. Responsibilities and expected time commitment are outlined below (see #2 below), as are the confidentiality needs (see #3 below). Community members who feel they meet these requirements and are interested in helping are encouraged to volunteer. Please e-mail your name, affiliation, telephone number(s), and email address to Dietmar Erwin, d.erwin(a)fz-juelich.de not later than Saturday December 4, 2004 (midnight UTC). Please put "NomCom volunteer" in the subject line. Volunteering for the NomCom is a way in which you can serve the GGF community. We encourage you to help! Best regards, Dietmar Erwin, d.erwin(a)fz-juelich.de, Chair (non-voting member) Beth Plale, past Chair (non-voting member) David Martin, GFSG liaison (non-voting member) NOMCOM Details 1. Nominating Committee Selection Process The call for volunteers will be open for approximately 30 days. To qualify as a volunteer, a person must have attended 2 of the last 4 GGF meetings. Note that this deviates from the 3 out of 5 rule in RFC3777. For the NomCom to work as it should, the pool of volunteers from which members are chosen must be as large as possible. The more people who volunteer, the better the chance of obtaining a random yet representative cross section of the GGF population. Once the call for volunteers closes, the list of volunteers will be posted to http://www.ggf.org/nomcom/index.html. The GGF secretariat will then verify the eligibility of each volunteer (i.e., attended at least 2 of the last 4 GGFs). The selection process will be held the week of December 6, 2004 and the results announced the week of December 13, 2004. Ten (10) NomCom voting members will be chosen at random from the pool of volunteers in accordance with RFC 2777, "Publicly Verifiable Nomcom Random Selection". The random number seed used in the selection software (available upon request) will be the sum of the ordered concatenation of the winning numbers from the drawing of the German National Lotto on Saturday, December 11, 2004. The winning numbers are posted at: <http://www.lotto.de> If an insufficient number of people volunteer, an extension will be announced and new dates for the lottery draw will be posted to the NomCom site. 2. Time Commitment and Responsibilities of NomCom Members ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A volunteer should be able to commit 2-3 hours per week for approximately 9 months. The task involves the following activities: - Read candidate statements - Participate in weekly 1-2 hour conference call. - Attend GGF meetings held during selection process. - Conduct interviews with candidates - Speak to GGF participants about potential candidates, the job requirements or the process. 3. Confidentiality ----------------------------------------------------------------------- All NomCom deliberations and supporting information that relates to specific nominees, candidates, and confirmed candidates remain confidential. The NomCom members will be exposed to confidential information as a result of their deliberations, their interactions with those they consult, and from those who provide requested supporting information. All members are expected to handle this information in a manner consistent with its sensitivity. Stacey Giannese Manager of Community Activities Global Grid Forum (Phone) 630-252-6444 (Cell) 708-935-2951 (Fax) 630-252-4466

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