SHPC 2015 - International Workshop on Sustainable Higher Performance Computing (SHPC 2015)

International Workshop on Sustainable Higher Performance Computing
(SHPC 2015)
in Collaboration with the 13th IEEE International Conference on
Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DACS 2015)
http://cse.stfx.ca/~dasc2015/
October 26-28, 2015, Liverpool, UK
About SHPC Workshop
Sustainable high performance computing puts dependable and autonomic computing in context. Without self-healing, self-configuration and self-monitoring, a high performance computing application will have hard time to complete under extreme scales. Without dependability, high performance computing applications are to suffer rapidly decreasing MTBF (mean time between failures) as we expand the size of computing clusters. Security is another dimension that mission critical high performance applications must take into account, or unintended consequences will cause irreparable harms.
While the above discussion made sense at the conceptual level, current research communities are narrowly divided into specific subareas. In fact, all these topics concern how to handle volatile resources in terms of programming, monitoring, configuration, load distribution/optimization and management. SHPC2015 Workshop aims to bring researchers in these related areas together to exchange ideas and concepts via the success and failure stories in all relevant areas for the benefit of sustainable high performance computing -- the non-lethal large scale typical distributed computing applications.
Unlike traditional conferences that favor successful novel technologies, SHPC2015 encourages submissions of credible in-depth stories that may be success or failure in dependable computing, autonomic computing, information security and sustainable high
performance computing efforts. In fact, we will learn more from failures than from successes.
In particular, data intensive distributed computing efforts are highly encouraged since they are more difficult to secure, to practice dependability and be made autonomic-ally computable.
SHPC2015 provides a platform for academic architecture researchers, industry practitioners and government agencies to exchange evolving distributed mission critical computing requirements, ideas and preliminary results.
As computational services are to become integral parts of human societies, performance, dependability, sustainability and security of these services directly impact future social and economic prosperity. SHPC2015 will be a checkpoint of dependable computing, autonomic computing and sustainable HPC efforts. The results may prove to be of fundamentally importance towards the building of 21st century software engineering principles.
Topics of Interest:
We invite regular (8 pages) and short (2-5 pages) position paper submissions on the theoretical foundation of programming for volatile resources. The position paper submissions will be vetted by the Program Committee. Topics include but not limited to the following areas:
- Theoretical foundation of programming volatile resources.
- Theoretical architecture concepts for volatile resources.
- Application scalability analysis using volatile resources.
- Investigative reports on delivered performance for computation intensive and data intensive applications with failures.
- Investigative results on delivered cloud performances for computation intensive and data intensive applications.
- Theoretical models and experiences in non-conventional HPC programming paradigms.
- Experiences in using auction-based HPC cloud resources.
- Experiences in virtualized GPU for HPC applications.
- Experiences in virtualized network for HPC applications.
- Innovative failure prevention and recovery methods.
- HPC security considerations using cloud resources.
- Communication infrastructure virtualization experiences.
- Private cloud implementation experiences.
- Innovative cloud auction pricing models.
Regular Paper Format: 8 pages, single column with minimal 11 point font.
Position Paper Format: 2 to 5 pages, single column with minimal 11 point font.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 June 2015
Notification Date: 15 August 2015
Camera-ready Paper Due: 15 September 2015
Registration Due: 15 September 2015
Conference Date: 26-28 October 2015
Paper Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=shpc2015 .
Workshop Organizers:
Justin Y. Shi, Temple University (Workshop Chair), USA
Boleslaw Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Vice Workshop Chair), USA
Pavan Balaji, Argon National Laboratory, USA
Chunming Rong, CIPSI, University of Stavanger, Norway
Dave Yuen, Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, USA
Kitrick Sheets, Cray Inc., USA,
Chiu Tan, CIS, Temple University, USA
Kreishah Abdallah, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Moussa Taifi, Cloudamize.com, USA
Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA
Gang Wang, Nankai University, China
Xiaoming Liu, Nankai University, China
Eagles Song, Parallel Computers Technology Inc., USA
Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University, USA
Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Sen Chiao, San Jose State University, USA
Weiwei Chen, University of Southern California, USA
Wei Wei, Xi’an University of Technology, China
Workshop Contact: Justin Y. Shi, shi-AT-temple.edu