Workshop05-HPPM

International Workshop on High Performance Platform Management

(HPPM 2016)

CALL FOR PAPERS

July 18 – July 22, 2016

Innsbruck, Austria

Submission Deadline: April 07, 2016 - Extended

Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

Recent years have seen a powerful increase in large-scale, high-performance distributed infrastructures that reach across organizational and national borders. The strong trends to data centre re-centralization, catalyzed by the advent of virtualized infrastructures, compound the range of high-performance platforms and have spawned new commercial computing options, e.g., Cloud Computing. While creating new opportunities for applications, this proliferation also presents challenges to the operation of management of the resulting high-performance IT platforms.

More and more applications exploit large-scale data-centre infrastructure: Cloud offerings promise scalable commercial services, while high-performance computing clusters support the growing demand of computational science applications.

The construction and operation of these High-Performance Platforms poses challenges in many aspects, e.g.:

- the efficient management of their resources;

- the security of the infrastructure;

- the trust of users in the integrity and privacy provided by the platform;

- reliability and survivability;

- the performance of the platform;

- scalability; and

- ease-of-use.

The HPPM 2016 track aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the domains of distributed large-scale computing applications, operations and management. The workshop will include presentations of contributed high-quality papers in these areas.

The HPPM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

We request submissions from researchers and practitioners on the following Workshop topics:

Performance and Control

• Scheduling

• Resource management

• Workflows

• Benchmarking

Security

• Infrastructure and data security

• Trust

• Privacy

Scalability and Construction

• Monitoring

• Fault management

• Configuration

Networks in the Data Centre

• Software-defined Networks (SDN)

• Low-latency networks

• Network protocols

Interaction with Users

• Management of accounts

• Accounting of used resources

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

HPPM 2016 welcomes submissions of original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to high performance platform management. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers/call-for-posters for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop paper submission EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hppm2016. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission.

Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2016 conference to present the paper at the workshop.

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2016 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly.

A planned special issue of the Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience will be available for selected papers of the conference. Best papers will be invited to submit an extended version.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the track organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submissions: -------------------------------------- April 07, 2016 - Extended

Acceptance Notification: --------------------------------- April 28, 2016

Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------ May 21, 2016 - Extended

Conference Dates: --------------------------------------- July 18 – 22, 2016

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Vitalian Danciu

Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany

Phone: +49 89-2180-9161

Email: danciu@nm.ifi.lmu.de

URL: http://www.nm.ifi.lmu.de/~danciu/

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop International Program Committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2016 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2016 Proceedings.

• Nam Thoai, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam

• Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universität München, Germany

• TBA, TBA

(*Committee formation is pending and will be finalized shortly.)

For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs16 or contact one of the Conference's organizers.