-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] 1st CFP: Resilience@CCGrid 2010 Datum: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:35:05 -0400 Von: Christian Engelmann engelmannc@ornl.gov Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

Call for Papers

3rd International Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience 2010) http://xcr.cenit.latech.edu/resilience2010 in conjunction with the 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010 May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Clusters, Clouds, and Grids are three different computational paradigms with the intent or potential to support High Performance Computing (HPC). Currently, they consist of hardware, management, and usage models particular to different computational regimes, e.g., high performance cluster systems designed to support tightly coupled scientific simulation codes typically utilize high-speed interconnects and commercial cloud systems designed to support software as a service (SAS) do not. However, in order to support HPC, all must at least utilize large numbers of resources and hence effective HPC in any of these paradigms must address the issue of resiliency at large-scale.

Recent trends in HPC systems have clearly indicated that future increases in performance, in excess of those resulting from improvements in single- processor performance, will be achieved through corresponding increases in system scale, i.e., using a significantly larger component count. As the raw computational performance of these HPC systems increases from today's tera- and peta-scale to next-generation multi peta-scale capability and beyond, their number of computational, networking, and storage components will grow from the ten-to-one-hundred thousand compute nodes of today's systems to several hundreds of thousands of compute nodes and more in the foreseeable future. This substantial growth in system scale, and the resulting component count, poses a challenge for HPC system and application software with respect to fault tolerance and resilience.

Furthermore, recent experiences on extreme-scale HPC systems with non-recoverable soft errors, i.e., bit flips in memory, cache, registers, and logic added another major source of concern. The probability of such errors not only grows with system size, but also with increasing architectural vulnerability caused by employing accelerators, such as FPGAs and GPUs, and by shrinking nanometer technology. Reactive fault tolerance technologies, such as checkpoint/restart, are unable to handle high failure rates due to associated overheads, while proactive resiliency technologies, such as migration, simply fail as random soft errors can't be predicted. Moreover, soft errors may even remain undetected resulting in silent data corruption.

Resilience 2010 is the follow-on workshop to the successful Resilience 2009 held with HPDC in Munich, Germany, and the earlier Resilience 2008 held in conjunction with CCGrid in Lyon, France.

Important Web sites: - Resilience 2010 : http://xcr.cenit.latech.edu/resilience2010 - CCGrid 2010 : http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010

Prior conferences Web sites: - Resilience 2009 : http://xcr.cenit.latech.edu/resilience2009 - Resilience 2008 : http://xcr.cenit.latech.edu/resilience2008

Important dates: - Paper submission deadline : December 6, 2009 (firm) - Notification deadline : December 18, 2009 - Camera ready deadline : January 25, 2010

Submission guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 6 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.

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. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made online through the IEEE Digital Library.

Papers should be submitted electronically in the IEEE conference proceedings style as PDF to the workshop submission Web site at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=resilience2010. For manuscript preparation with LaTeX, use the newer unofficial CTAN from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf or the older official IEEE conference proceedings template available at <ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11.zip>. For Microsoft Word, use the official proceedings template available at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.doc.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Reports on current HPC system and application resiliency - HPC resiliency metrics and standards - HPC system and application resiliency analysis - HPC system and application-level fault handling and anticipation - HPC system and application health monitoring - Resiliency for HPC file and storage systems - System-level checkpoint/restart for HPC - System-level migration for HPC - Algorithm-based resiliency fundamentals for HPC (not Hadoop) - Fault tolerant MPI concepts and solutions - Soft error detection and recovery in HPC systems - HPC system and application log analysis - Statistical methods to identify failure root causes - Fault injection studies in HPC environments - High availability solutions for HPC systems - Reliability and availability analysis - Hardware for fault detection and recovery - Resource management for system resiliency and availability

General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA scottsl@ornl.gov - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun SWEPCO Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science Louisiana Tech University, USA box@latech.edu

Program Chair: - Christian Engelmann Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA engelmannc@ornl.gov

Publication Co-Chairs: - James Brandt Sandia National Laboratories, USA brandt@sandia.gov - Ann Gentile Sandia National Laboratories, USA gentile@sandia.gov

Program Committee: - George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, USA - Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Franck Cappello, INRIA Paris, France - Kasidit Chanchio, Thammasat University, Thailand - Zizhong Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Yung-Chin Fang, Dell, USA - Ann Gentile, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Paul Hargrove, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University, USA - Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, LMU/LRZ Munich, Germany - Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University, USA - Celso Mendes, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA - Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes, France - Thomas Naughton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - George Ostrouchov, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Li Ou, Dell, USA - DK Panda, The Ohio State University, USA - Mihaela Paun, Louisiana Tech University, USA - Rolf Riesen, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Stephen L. Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dan Stanzione, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA - Jon Stearley, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA - Gregory M. Thorson, SGI, USA - Geoffroy Vallee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA