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PostDoc/Phd positions at Vienna University of Technology in MPI performance guideline verification/benchmarking
by Jesper Larsson Träff 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Project positions "Verifying Self-consistent MPI performance guidelines": PostDoc and PhD Research Group Parallel Computing Faculty of Informatics Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) Vienna, Austria www.par.tuwien.ac.at *** Application deadline: Monday, June 3rd, 2013 *** Detailed description: http://www.par.tuwien.ac.at/positions/fwf13postphd.txt For a new, 3-year research project to commence in Summer/Autumn 2013, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Research Group for Parallel Computing at the Institute of Information Systems, Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) is offering * A fully funded, 40 hour/week Postdoc position (40 hours) * Two 30 hour/week PhD positions for research, tool development, and extensive hypothesis testing/benchmarking within a new project on "Verifying Self-consistent MPI performance guidelines". The project aims at formulating rules that can guide the quality and performance portability of MPI (Message-Passing Interface) implementations (possibly extending the ideas towards other parallel languages, interfaces and libraries), and develop means to automatically verify and detect violations to such rules. Important aspects of the project are rule-directed benchmarking, computer system modeling, communication algorithms, automated, rule-based (statistical) result analysis, and include analysis and development of statistically well-founded, fast, accurate, comprehensive and extensible (customizable) benchmarking procedures for MPI. The project can build on previous work in the MPI community, and is expected to significantly extend on, broaden and substantiate such results. A detailed project description, that will be the starting point for the research, will be available to candidates considered for the positions.

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Next MPI forum June 4th-7th
by Schulz, Martin 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi all, Since the question came up - please remember that the next MPI forum will be June 4th to 7th (Tuesday-Friday (!) ) in San Jose. We made this decision to switch to the later part of the week last December to accommodate several people's travel schedules. Working group leads: please send me requests for working group time at the meeting. I'll start assembling an agenda from that in the next few weeks. Thanks! Martin ________________________________________________________________________ Martin Schulz, schulzm(a)llnl.gov, http://people.llnl.gov/schulzm CASC @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA

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Call For Papers: EuroMPI 2013. Submission deadline extended to April 12th, 2013
by Rolf Rabenseifner 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Dear Sir or Madam, (We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) ============================================================ ** Due to multiple requests, the EuroMPI 2013 paper submission deadline is extended to April 12th, 2012. ** Recent Advances in Message Passing Interface. 20th European MPI Users' Group Meeting (EuroMPI 2013) EuroMPI 2013 is being held in cooperation with SIGHPC Madrid, Spain, September 15-18, 2013 www.eurompi2013.org BACKGROUND AND TOPICS ------------------------------- EuroMPI is the preeminent meeting for users, developers and researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications of message-passing parallel computing, in particular in and related to the Message Passing Interface (MPI). The annual meeting has a long, rich tradition, and the 20th European MPI Users' Group Meeting will again be a lively forum for discussion of everything related to usage and implementation of MPI and other parallel programming interfaces. Traditionally, the meeting has focused on the efficient implementation of aspects of MPI, typically on high-performance computing platforms, benchmarking and tools for MPI, short-comings and extensions of MPI, parallel I/O and fault tolerance, as well as parallel applications using MPI. The meeting is open towards other topics, in particular application experience and alternative interfaces for high-performance heterogeneous, hybrid, distributed memory systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - MPI implementation issues and improvements - Extensions to and shortcomings of MPI - Tools and environments for MPI - Hybrid and heterogeneous programming with MPI and other interfaces - Relation of MPI to alternative interfaces for hybrid/heterogeneous distributed memory systems - Interaction between message-passing software and hardware, in particular new high performance architectures - Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems - Performance evaluation for MPI and MPI based applications- - Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations - Verification of message passing applications and protocols - Applications using message-passing, in particular in Computational Science and Scientific Computing - Non-standard message-passing applications - Parallel algorithms in the message-passing paradigm - Algorithms using the message-passing paradigm The meeting will feature contributed talks on the selected, peer-reviewed papers, invited expert talks covering upcoming and future issues, a vendor session where selected vendors will present their new developments in hybrid and heterogeneous cluster and high-performance architectures, a poster session, and a tutorial day. The scientific part of the conference is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC. Conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library, which includes short and long papers, workshop papers, and posters. Selected high quality papers will be published in an international journals. There will also be a reward for the overall best paper from the academic conference. WORKSHOPS ------------------------------- IMUDI SPECIAL SESSION ON IMPROVING MPI USER AND DEVELOPER INTERACTION The IMUDI special session, to be held as a full-day meeting at the EuroMPI 2013 conference in Madrid, Spain, focuses on bringing together the MPI end-user and MPI implementor communities through discussions on MPI usage experiences, techniques, and optimizations. This meeting will focus on evaluating the MPI standard from the perspective of the MPI end-user (application and library developers) and address concerns and insights of MPI implementors and vendors. Unlike workshops associated with other conferences, the IMUDI session is still considered to be a part of the Euro MPI conference. Submissions will be reviewed separately to facilitate bringing together research publications falling into these "special focus" areas. More info at: http://press.mcs.anl.gov/imudi/ ENERGY-EFFICIENT HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING & COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP (E2HPC2) 2013 The first Energy-Efficient High Performance Computing & Communication workshop will be co-located with EuroMPI 2013 in Madrid. Energy-awareness is now a main topic for HPC systems. The goal of this workshop is to discuss latest researches on the impact and possibles leverages of communications for such systems. E2HPC2 solicits original and non-published or under-review articles on the field of energy-aware communication in HPC environment. This workshop is co-located with EuroMPI as MPI is the main communication interface in those environments. More info at: http://www.irit.fr/~Georges.Da-Costa/e2hpc2.html PBIO 2013: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PARALLELISM IN BIOINFORMATICS In Bioinformatics, we can find a variety of problems which are affected by huge processing times and memory consumption, due to the large size of biological data sets and the inherent complexity of biological problems. In fact, Bioinformatics is one of the most exciting research areas in which Parallelism finds application. Successful examples are mpiBLAST or ClustalW-MPI, among many others. In conclusion, Bioinformatics allows and encourages the application of many different parallelism-based technologies. The focus of this workshop is on MPI-based approaches, but we welcome any technique based on: multicore and cluster computing, supercomputing, grid computing, cloud computing, hardware accelerators as GPUs, FPGAs, or Cell processors, etc. More info at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio2013/ SUBMISSION INFORMATION ------------------------------- Contributors are invited to submit a full paper as a PDF document not exceeding 6 pages in English. The title page should contain an abstract of at most 100 words and five specific, topical keywords. The paper must be formatted according to double-column ACM ICPS proceedings style. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is strongly recommended. Style files can be found at http://www.acm.org/publications/icps-instructions/. New work that is not yet mature for a full paper, short observations, and similar brief announcements are invited for the poster session. Contributions to the poster session should be submitted in the form of a two page abstract. All contributions will be fully peer reviewed by the program committee. Papers shall be submitted electronically via Easychair, see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurompi2013. NVIDIA BEST PAPER AWARD ------------------------------- The Program Committee of EuroMPI 2013 will give a best paper awards. Best Paper Awards will be given to the author(s) of a full paper presented at the conference, selected by the Organizing Committee. The Best Paper Award is a Tesla K20 computing processor, sponsored by NVIDIA, valued in $3,200. SCHEDULE, IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------- - Submission of full papers and poster: April 12th, 2013 - Author notification: May 11th, 2013 - Camera Ready papers due: June 15th, 2013 - Tutorial(s): September 15th, 2012 - Conference: September 16th-18th, 2013 CONFERENCE SPONSORS ------------------------------- Platinum: CISCO Gold: Bull NVidia COMMITTEE ------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIR Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA ORGANIZERS, PC CHAIRS Javier Garcia Blas, Carlos III University (fjblas(a)inf.uc3m.es) Jesus Carretero, Carlos III University (jesus.carretero(a)uc3m.es) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee Gil Bloch, Mellanox Technologies Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories Darius Buntinas, Argonne National Laboratory Franck Cappello, INRIA and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yiannis Cotronis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Chi-Yin Chow, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong Anthony Danalis, University of Tennessee Luiz Derose, Cray Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston Brice Goglin, INRIA Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah David Goodell, Argonne National Laboratory Richard Graham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rainer Keller, HFT Stuttgart, University of Applied Science Julian Kunkel, Universitat Hamburg Thomas Herault, University of Tennessee Bronis De Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Thomas Ludwig, German Climate Computing Center and University of Hamburg David E. Singh, University Carlos III of Madrid Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Atsushi Hori, RIKEN AICS Florin Isaila, University Carlos III of Madrid Akihiro Inokuchi, Osaka University Yutaka Ishikawa, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology / Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Jesper Larsson Traff, Vienna University of Technology Alexey Lastovetsky, UCD School of Computer Science & Informatics Laurent Lefevre, INRIA Dong Li, Oak Rdige National Lab Ewing Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory Teng Ma, NetApp Inc Guillaume Mercier, ENSEIRB/INRIA Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Center Raffaele Montella, Department of Applied Science - University of Naples Parthenope Julian David Morillo Pozo, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Matthias Mueller, ZIH, TU Dresden Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta Jaechun No, Sejong University Maria S. Perez, Technical University of Madrid Rolf Rabenseifner, HLRS, University of Stuttgart Rolf Riesen, IBM Gudula Runge, Chemnitz University of Technology Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba Christian Siebert, RWTH Aachen University Anna Sikora, DACSO - UAB Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu Laboratories Frederic Suter, IN2P3 Computing Center Jeff Squyres, Cisco Alexander Supalov, Intel GmbH Domenico Talia, Universita della Calabria Vinod Tipparaju, AMD Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory Carsten Trinitis, University of Bedfordshire Yuichi Tsujita, Kinki University Denis Trystram, Grenoble university Keith Underwood, Intel Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Alan Wagner, University of British Columbia Roland Wismuller, University of Siegen Roman Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology Xin Yuan, Florida State University CONFERENCE FEES ------------------------------- The conference will hopefully be well supported by sponsors, which will help directly towards keeping the fees low. As far as possible, special student fees will be offered. _______________________________________________ I would appreciate if you could forward this email to interested colleagues. If you receive double postings or you want to stop these postings, then please reply the email-address(es) that should be unsubscribed, and include "unsubscribe" in the subject line.

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Schedule request
by Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Martin -- Fab and I would like to request plenary time on the schedule for the following proposal next meeting: http://blogs.cisco.com/performance/i-can-has-mpi/ Thanks. -- Jeff Squyres jsquyres(a)cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/

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