International Research Workshop
Advanced High Performance Computing Systems
Cetraro (
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MAIN AIM AND SCOPE
Recent
progress in information technology like commodity processing components, multicore, hierarchical memory architectures, fast communication,
increased density, virtualization and other
middleware software and tools, and new paradigms like grid and cloud
computing, have the potential for High Performance Computing (HPC) as a tool to
gain much broader acceptance of high-performance computer simulations and data
processing, in wider areas of research and industry, than ever before. On the
other hand, the extremely fast pace this change is happening causes new kinds
of challenges in technological, mental, and even political areas which have to
be addressed to enable wider acceptance and implementation of these new
technologies and paradigms.
Therefore,
main aim of this workshop is to present and debate advanced topics, open
questions, future developments, and challenging applications related to
advanced high-performance distributed computing and data systems, like grids
and clouds as mentioned above. In the following, we present just a few examples
of topics which are important to being addressed at the workshop.
Emerging
computing paradigms such as grid and cloud computing, and technologies like
virtualization and multi-core/many-core demand new developments and techniques
in system middleware, tools, libraries, and applications. In addition, Green
computing is an emerging model in Green IT to optimize energy consumption as it
is called energy efficient computing. Besides conventional performance metrics
in scheduling such as utilization and throughput, energy consumption is another
metric which is introduced by energy efficient computing.
One
important topic in this context is resource scheduling in complex distributed
systems like HPC clusters, grids, and clouds. Within the last two decades
schedulers have been designed in such a way to solely optimize packing of jobs
as a means to improve scheduling metrics. However, these packing-based
mechanisms are not context-aware e.g. taking into account interaction of users.
Context-aware scheduling, e.g. user-aware scheduling, is a new generation of
scheduling which has been introduced in recent years. Context-aware scheduling
opens new ways of research taking into account context, resource management,
admission control, pricing strategy and many more.
Another
important topic in HPC is now Cloud Computing. We are seeing more and more
government funded cloud testbeds and projects like
Magellan or the
Strongly
related to the topic of clouds is Green IT, because clouds are making computing
also more energy-efficient. By storing and running processes on the cloud,
applications can share the resources sitting on a wide network of servers,
which can keep them from going idle and wasting the energy used to power them.
IT consulting firm Accenture estimates that companies
could cut energy consumption and carbon emissions by 30 percent by switching
over to the cloud.
Another
trend which goes well together with clouds and with Green-IT is resource
virtualization. Consolidating servers using a virtualization process not
only provides savings in terms of how many physical machines must be bought and
maintained, but also potentially reduces the amount of physical space that a
company needs for its servers or data center. Since virtualization
allows a variety of operating systems and software configuration settings to be
used on a single machine, application virtualization
provides a much more flexible way for companies to run applications. The
flexibility benefits of virtualization mean that all those operating
systems and applications could potentially be run on a single piece of
hardware. As such, efficiently using hardware is one of the biggest benefits of virtualization.
Summarizing,
the aim of this special workshop is to shed some light on key topics in
advanced computing systems and, in particular, to address the aforementioned
contemporary scheduling topics. For that, the two and a half day program of
this workshop will have about ten invited talks by experts in the field.
2 WORKSHOP TOPICS
Workshop topics
will be related to advanced and emerging distributed computing systems and
include, but are not limited to, any of the following ones:
·
Cloud Computing
·
Intelligent Scheduling
·
Green Computing
·
Virtualization
·
Data and Computing in the Petaflops and Exascale Era
3 PROGRAM
COMMITTEE
· I. Llorente Spain
· J. Dongarra U.S.A.
·
L.
Grandinetti
·
W.
Gentzsch
·
G.
Joubert The
· H. Casanova U.S.A.
· I. Foster U.S.A.
·
M.
Devare
·
M.
Bubak Poland
·
P.M.A.
Sloot The
·
V.
Turchenko Ukraine
·
J.
Kowalik
4 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
·
Lucio Grandinetti
·
Wolfgang
Gentzsch
·
M.
Sheikhalishahi
·
M.
Al Baali
·
J.
Kowalik
5 LIST OF SPEAKERS
The List of Speakers is
available in the Program page.
6 SPONSORS
·
Microsoft
·
IBM
·
Juelich Supercomputing Center
·
T-Systems
·
NICE
·
·
NEC
7 WORKSHOP VENUE AND ADDRESS
The workshop will be
held at the Grand
Hotel San Michele,
a charming Hotel on the Tyrrhenian coast of
The Hotel is very close
to a fisherman village named Cetraro, near
Enquiries about the technical programme and applications for participation in the
workshop should be sent to:
Prof.
Dipartimento Elettronica, Informatica, Sistemistica –
Università della Calabria
87036 Rende - Cosenza - Italy
Phone: +39-984-494731
Fax: +39-984-494847
e-mail: lugran@unical.it
8 PARTICIPATION, DEADLINES AND GUIDELINES
All contributions to the Workshop are invited original research papers
not previously published.
9 PROCEEDINGS
A selection of the papers presented will be published
in a special issue of the well established Elsevier Journal “Future Generation Computer
Systems”.
10 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
10.1. ACCOMMODATION
Two accommodation types are available at the workshop’s hotel:
1. Rooms in the main hotel building
|
Type of
Accommodation |
Price in Euros |
|
Single room |
170,00 |
|
Double room (double occupancy) |
140,00 p.p. |
|
Double room (used as single) |
210,00 |
|
Suite (multiple occupancy) |
190,00 p.p. |
All prices are intended PER
PERSON, PER DAY.
They include accommodation and full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner).
The Hotel’s number of rooms available
is limited. The single rooms are very few.
An early booking is recommended.
2. Rooms in the Hotel annex buildings “maisonnettes”
The “Maisonnettes” are Hotel annex buildings, located within a green
park, at a walking distance from the main building and the congress center.
The “Maisonnettes” can accommodate one/two/three/four persons.
This type of
accommodation is particularly suitable for small groups or families.
The price is 110 Euro
for single occupancy and 90 Euro for multiple occupancy.
The price is per
person, per day, covering both accommodation and
full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner).
The price per person in
a double room (main Hotel building) or in a multiple occupancy (“Maisonnettes”) refers to workshop participants.
The case of special
arrangements (e.g. children accommodation, suite accommodation, etc.) is
handled by the Workshop Secretariat.
The number of rooms available is very
limited.
An early booking is recommended.
Hotel reservations will be managed by the
Workshop Secretariat (lugran @ unical.it)
Please use the ACCOMMODATION FORM
to specify
the accommodation required.
10.2. LOCAL TRANSPORTATION
A pick up service will be provided, free of charge, to those who will
fill in the
11 WORKSHOP AGENDA
The Agenda is available in the
Program
page.