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<div> CALL FOR PAPERS</div>
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<div id=""> The International Workshop on </div>
<div id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown">Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS)</div>
<div> http://data.cs.ttu.edu/discs/</div>
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<div> November 16th, 2012, Salt Lake City </div>
<div> In conjunction with the </div>
<div> 2012 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC'12) </div>
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<div> Scope of the Workshop</div>
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<div>High-performance computing (HPC) is a major strategic tool </div>
<div>for science, engineering, and industry. Existing HPC systems, </div>
<div>however, are largely designed and developed for computation-</div>
<div>intensive applications with a computing-centric paradigm. With </div>
<div>the emerging and timely needs of supporting data-intensive </div>
<div>scientific discovery and innovations, there is a need of </div>
<div>rethinking the system architectures, programming models, runtime </div>
<div>systems, and tools available for data-intensive HPC. The DISCS </div>
<div>workshop provides a forum for researchers and developers in the </div>
<div>high-performance computing, data-intensive computing, and </div>
<div>parallel computing fields to take the Big Data challenges </div>
<div>together and present innovative ideas, experiences, and latest </div>
<div>developments that help address these challenges.</div>
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<div> Topics of Interest</div>
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<div>The focus areas of the DISCS-2012 workshop include, but are not </div>
<div>limited to:</div>
<div> -> HPC system architectures for supporting data intensive </div>
<div> applications</div>
<div> # Data-centric system architectures</div>
<div> # I/O systems and architectures</div>
<div> # System area networks</div>
<div> # Power efficient systems for data intensive applications</div>
<div> -> Programming models for supporting data intensive </div>
<div> applications</div>
<div> # Data-centric programming models</div>
<div> # MPI extensions for data intensive applications</div>
<div> # GAS/PGAS/OpenMP programming model extensions for data-</div>
<div> intensive applications</div>
<div> # New programming languages/methodologies for data-</div>
<div> intensive HPC</div>
<div> -> Runtime systems for supporting data intensive applications</div>
<div> # Communication systems for supporting data intensive </div>
<div> applications</div>
<div> # Data compression and deduplication</div>
<div> # Caching and prefetching</div>
<div> # Data integrity and consistency</div>
<div> -> Tools for supporting data intensive applications</div>
<div> # Data analytic, tracing, and trace analysis tools</div>
<div> # Data mining and knowledge discovery tools</div>
<div> # Computational, mathematical and statistical techniques </div>
<div> and tools</div>
<div> # Data visualization techniques and tools</div>
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<div> Important Dates</div>
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<div> -> Paper Submission: September 8th, 2012 </div>
<div> -> Author Notification: October 22nd, 2012 </div>
<div> -> Workshop Date: November 16th, 2012</div>
<div> -> Camera-Ready Copy: December 7th, 2012 </div>
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<div> Submission Instructions</div>
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<div>Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. letter size paper, </div>
<div>and should be formatted according to the IEEE standard double-</div>
<div>column single-space format. They should not exceed 5 pages (all-</div>
<div>inclusive). Please access the IEEE site for the manuscript template. </div>
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<div>Please visit the following site to make paper submissions: </div>
<div>https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=discs2012</div>
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<div>All accepted papers will appear in the SC-2012 digital proceedings </div>
<div>in the IEEE digital library.</div>
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<div> Journal Special Issue</div>
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<div>DISCS-2012 workshop papers will be invited to extend the manuscripts</div>
<div>to be considered for a journal Special Issue on Data-Intensive High</div>
<div>Performance Computing of the Cluster Computing by Springer, edited </div>
<div>by Yong Chen and Xian-He Sun. The target journal special issue </div>
<div>submission deadline is Jan. 16th, 2013.</div>
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<div id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown"> Organizers</div>
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<div>STEERING COMMITTEE</div>
<div>William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</div>
<div>Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology</div>
<div>Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory</div>
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<div>PROGRAM CHAIRS</div>
<div>Yong Chen, Texas Tech University</div>
<div>Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology</div>
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<div>TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div>
<div>Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</div>
<div>Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</div>
<div>Hui Jin, Oracle</div>
<div>Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</div>
<div>Quincey Koziol, HDF5 Group</div>
<div>Wei-keng Liao, Northwestern University</div>
<div>Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory</div>
<div>Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz</div>
<div>Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology</div>
<div>Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</div>
<div>Weikuan Yu, Auburn University</div>
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