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IEEE Cluster workshops– held on Monday and Friday – is hosting several workshops targeting specific areas in cluster computing and high performance computing. These workshops cover work that is more cutting-edge, contains preliminary work, and has more practical content than the more mature research presented in the main conference. The workshops complement the main conference with broadened and extended content, and simultaneously deepen the week's presentations at IEEE Cluster 2012 by focusing on special topics.Below is the list of some workshops planned for cluster 2012 in Beijing, China. (Include a description of the workshop's mission, the names of organizers and program committee members.)

Monday Workshops – Sept.24 2012 – Beijing, China
IASDS one day
PQoSCom one day
SSDHS half day

Friday Workshops – Sept. 28 2012 – Beijing, China
IWPAPS12 one day

（1）4th Workshop on Interfaces and Architectures for Scientific Data Storage (IASDS)

Call for Papers: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds12
September 24 2012, held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2012 in Beijing, China
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Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2012
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High-performance computing simulations and large scientific experiments generate tens of terabytes of data, and these data sizes grow each year. Existing systems for storing, managing, and analyzing data are being pushed to their limits by these applications, and new techniques are necessary to enable efficient data processing for future simulations and experiments.

This workshop will provide a forum for engineers and scientists to present and discuss their most recent work related to the storage, management, and analysis of data for scientific workloads. Emphasis will be placed on forward-looking approaches to tackle the challenges of storage at extreme scale or to provide better abstractions for use in scientific workloads.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * parallel file systems
    * scientific databases
    * active storage
    * scientific I/O middleware
    * extreme scale storage

Past Workshops:

    IASDS 2011, Austin:
        http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds11/agenda.php
    IASDS 2010, Crete:
        http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds10/agenda.php
    IASDS 2009, New Orleans:
        http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds09/agenda.php

Important Dates:

    Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2012
    Author Notification: June 22, 2012
    Final Manuscript Due: July 7, 2012
    Workshop: September 24, 2012

Submission Info:

See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds12/submissions/

Workshop Chairs:

    Philip Carns, Mathematics and Computer Science Division,
        Argonne National Laboratory (carns@mcs.anl.gov)
    Osamu Tatebe, Center for Computational Sciences,
        University of Tsukuba (tatebe@cs.tsukuba.ac.jp)

Program Committee:

    Francisco Javier García Blas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
    Philip Carns, Argonne National Laboratory
    Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba
    Hiroya Matsuba, Hitachi
    Carlos Maltzahn, UCSC & Ultra-scale Research Center at New Mexico Consortium
    Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory
    Yoshihiro Oyama, University of Electro-Communications
    Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu
    Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba
    Andrew Uselton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Pete Wyckoff, NetApp, Inc.

（2）The 2012 International Workshop on Power and QoS Aware Computing (PQoSCom’12) in conjunction with IEEE Cluster’12

Workshop chairs:

Prof. R.K.Shyamasundar, IEEE FELLOW, ACM FELLOW, School of Technology & Computer Science,Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Email:shyam@tcs.tifr.res.in

Prof. Long Wang, Supercomputing Center, Computer Network Information Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences

Email:wangl@sccas.cn

Prof. Cong-Feng Jiang, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Email:cjiang@hdu.edu.cn

Description:
Power is becoming a critical resource to not only mobile, wireless, and battery-powered devices, but also large-scale server systemsanddata centers. Lower power consumption can significantly extend the usage time of battery-powered devices or reduce heat-related malfunctions and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for enterprise server systems and data centers. However, existing solutions for power aware computing mostly focus on the power reduction of the targeted computing systems at the sacrifice of QoS (Quality of Service) performance. Due to the high-density of service consolidation and development of new applications and the increasing number of users with heterogeneous requests, providing users with QoS guarantees while executing applications and saving power consumption has become a crucial problem that needs to be addressed for various computing systems. Moreover, with active deployment of multi-core and many-core architecture, virtualization and the emerging cloud computing infrastructure, power and QoS constraints raise more challenges and have negative impacts on system performance. Hence, various aspects of power and QoS aware related solutions, such as algorithms design, performance evaluation and analysis, and prototypical implementation are required to make the computing system more power efficient with little loss of QoS performance.

This workshop focuses on the challenges imposed by power and QoS constraints on computing systems, and on the different state-of-the-art solutions proposed to overcome these challenges.

2012 International Workshop on Power and QoS Aware Computing (PQoSCom2012) is a forum for professionals involved in energy efficiency and QoS constraints in parallel and distributed computing systems and data center operations and management. The goal of this workshop is to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of power aware and QoS constrained computing and bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. We believe that power and QoS aware computing will benefit from close interaction between researchers and industry practitioners, so that the research can inform current deployments and deployment challenges can inform new research. In support of this, PQoSCom 2012 will provide a forum for both academics and industry practitioners to share their ideas and experiences, discuss challenges and recent advances, introduce developments and tools, identify open issues, present applications and enhancements for power and QoS aware computing systems and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research, leverage each other's perspectives, and identify new/emerging trends in this important area.

We therefore cordially invite contributions that investigate these issues, introduce new execution environments, apply performance evaluations and show the applicability to science and enterprise applications. We welcome various different kinds of papers that could formalize, simplify and optimize all the aspects of existing large scale computing systems and applications in science, engineering and business. We particularly encourage the submission of position papers that describe novel research directions and work that is in its formative stages, and papers about practical experiences and lessons learned from production systems.

Papers of applied research, industrial experience reports, work-in-progress and vision papers with different criteria for each category that describe recent advances and efforts in the design and development of power and QoS aware computing, functionalities and capabilities that will benefit many applications are also solicited. The best presented paper will receive a BEST PAPER AWARD.

List of topics:

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

• Novel Power-aware Architectures for Various Kind of Computing Systems

• Power and QoS Optimization

• Power and QoS Tradeoff Modeling and Simulation

• Power and QoS Performance Evaluation

• Power and QoS Aware Scheduling

• Power and QoS Aware Load Balancing

• QoS Specification, Formulation, Quantification and Verification

• Instrumentation, Profiling, and Measuring of Power Consumption

• Power and QoS awareness and Management at All Levels

• Virtualization

• Multi/Many Core

• Grid/Cluster/Cloud/Mobile/ Embedded Computing

• Power-aware Real Time Systems

• Power Reduction Algorithms & Applications

• Survey/Reviews of Power and QoS Challenges of Modern Computing Systems

• Power Efficiency and Thermal Management in Data Centers

• Power and QoS Aware Storage and File Systems

• Fault Tolerance, Reliability, and Availability

• Green Data Intensive Computing

• Performance Engineering, Benchmark Design, and Run-time Power-QoS management

Program Committee:

• Brian Vinter (Copenhagen University, Denmark)

• Guoray Cai (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

• Hong-Linh Truong(Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

• Lei Liu (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

• R.K. Shyamasundar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)

• Uwe Glässer (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

• Walter Binder (University of Lugano, Switzerland)

• Weihui Dai(Fudan University, China)

• Mea Wang (University of Calgary, Canada)

• Stephen Wang (Toshiba Telecommunications Research Laboratory Europe, UK)

• Robert Lagerstrom (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

• Kumiko Tadano (NEC, Japan)

• Jian Zhao (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

• Dan Li (Tsinghua University, China)

• Amit Dvir (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

• Huilin Xu (Qualcomm, USA)

• Jie Wu (Yale/Fudan University, China)

• Woosung Jung, Chungbuk National University, Korea

Submission Instructions:

Please submit full papers in PDF or doc format via the submission system. Do not email submissions. Papers must be written in English.

The complete submission must be no longer than ten (10) pages. It should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading. References should not be set in a smaller font. Submissions that violate any of these restrictions may not be reviewed. The limits will be interpreted fairly strictly, and no extensions will be given for reformatting. Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 8 pages; max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The names of authors and their affiliations should be included on the first page of the submission. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. Reviewing of full papers will be done by the program committee, assisted by outside referees. Accepted papers will be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee.

By submitting a paper, you agree that at least one of the authors will attend the workshop to present it. Otherwise, the paper will be excluded from the digital library of IEEE. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in special issues of well-known international journals.

Tentative size and length of the proposed workshop :

We expect to have 75 submissions for the workshop, from which we plan to select 12 regular papers and 9 short papers. The workshop is expected to be held for 1 day.

Publicity plan:

We have identified person Dr. Ji-Lin Zhang from Hangzhou Dianzi University, China and Dr. Chunlei Liu from Valdosta State University, USA to be responsible for the publicity of the workshop. They will send CFPs to various mailing lists and community channels.

Important dates:

Paper Submission : May/20/2012

Notification of Acceptance : Jun/15/2012

Final Version of the Paper : Jul/7/2012

Short biographies for the workshop chairs

Prof. R.K. Shyamasundar is with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India where he is currently a Senior Professor and JC Bose National Fellow. He was the Founder Dean of the School of Technology and Computer Science. He took his B.E. (Electrical Engineering.) from University of Mysore, M.E. ( Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Ph.D.(Computer Science and Automation), from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His principle areas of research are: Specification, Design and Verification of reactive and real-time systems, Programming Languages, Logics of programs, Formal methods, Computer and Network & Information Security. He has published widely and has more than 200 publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings, two monograph, several edited books, and holds several patents in US and India. He has given several invited talks at various conferences and has guided more than 35 Ph.D. students who are occupying leading positions in academia and industry. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACM and serves on IEEE Esterel Std Committee. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of TWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Trieste.)

http://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~shyam/

（3）The 2012 International workshop on Sustainable Software Development for Heterogeneous System (SSDHS)

Organization

General Co-Chairs:
• Zhifeng Yun, Louisiana State University, USA
• Jian Tao, Louisiana State University, USA

Technical Committee
• Gabrielle Allen, National Science Foundation, USA
• Mihai Anitescu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Yifeng Chen, Peking University, China
• Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China
• Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, UK
• Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA
• Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
• J. Ramanujam, Louisiana State University, USA
• Jennifer Schopf, National Science Foundation, USA
• Yuzhong Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Lizhe Wang,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Call for Paper:

The 2012 International workshop on Sustainable Software Development for Heterogeneous System (SSDHS), co-located with IEEE Cluster 2012, provides a dedicated forum for the scientific community to discuss new research, development, and deployment exports in developing sustainable software environment on heterogeneous Computing platforms. The workshop will focus on the use of sustainable programming framework to develop parallel codes to meet new compute intensive and data intensive scientific challenges that are not well served by the current architectures. The workshop aims to address questions such as: portability, programmability, performance, scalability, and productivity in designing and developing highly efficient parallel scientific applications, which can take advantage of heterogeneous architectures. This workshop encourages interaction and cross-pollination between those developing applications, algorithms, software, hardware and networking, emphasizing scientific computing for such heterogeneous platforms. We believe that it will be an excellent place to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and define architectures and services for future code development.

Topics of Interest:

We invite the submission of original work that is related to the topics below. The papers can be either short (5 pages) position papers, or full (10 pages) research papers. Topics of interest are, but are not restricted to:

Algorithms for use with heterogeneous systems
Computational framework
Automatic code generation
Dynamic code optimization
Performance modeling and analysis
Large scale scientific applications on heterogeneous systems

Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of no more than 10 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. Document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. We are also seeking position papers of no more than 5 pages in length. The final 5/10 page papers in PDF format must be submitted online at before the deadline. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the IEEE Cluster 2012 proceedings. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Submission link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssdhs12

Important Dates:

Papers Due: May 20, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2012
Camera Ready Papers Due: July 7, 2012
Workshop: September 24, 2012

Zhifeng Yun, www.cct.lsu.edu/~zyun/
Addr:Center for Computation and Technology
         244 Johnston Hall
         Louisiana State University
   Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: (225) 578-5444
E-mail: zyun@cct.lsu.edu

Jian Tao
Addr: Center for Computation and Technology
          210 Johnston Hall
          Louisiana State University
          Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: (225) 578-6960
E-mail: jtao@cct.lsu.edu

（4）2012 International Workshop on Parallel Algorithm and Parallel Software (IWPAPS12)
held in conjunction with the IEEE Cluster 2012 (Cluster-12)
Sep 24-28, 2012 in Beijing, China
http://iwpaps12.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1

Program Committee:

Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Jun Chen, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P.R. China
Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, P.R. China
Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, P.R. China
Haiwu He, INRIA-Futurs, France

Zhaohui Huang, State Key Lab. of Space Weather, CAS, P.R. China
Kenli Li, Hunan University, P.R. China
Ligang Li, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS, P.R. China
Hui Liu, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada

Guoping Long, Institute of Software, CAS, P.R. China

Yutong Lu, National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China

Jiayuan Meng, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
Guangzhong Sun, University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China
Guangming Tan, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, P.R. China

Long Wang, Supercomputing Center, CNIC of CAS, P.R. China

Xingfu Wu, Texas A&M University, USA

Jin Xu, Institute of Software, CAS, P.R. China

Linbo Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, CAS, P.R. China
Peiheng Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, P.R. China

Tie Zhou, Peking University, P.R. China

Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Software, CAS, P.R. China

PC Chair:
Prof. Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Software, CAS, P.R. China

CALL FOR PAPERS

With the rapid development of many core processors, parallel computing becomes very hot research field. How to design parallel algorithm and develop parallel software for many core processors and parallel computing system based on such processors becomes a very challenge problem. The goal of IWPAPS is to be an important research forum that brings together leading practitioners and researchers of parallel algorithm design and parallel software development. IWPAPS brings together researchers from the parallel programming languages, parallel application development, parallel compilers, performance optimization and other areas. To reflect this diversity of backgrounds, in 2012, IWPAPS will be held in conjunction with The IEEE Cluster 2012(Cluster-12).

Topics

Topics include: (but are not limited to):

Scalable Parallel Algorithm Design
Next Generation Parallel Programming Model
Next Generation Parallel Programming Languages
Parallelizing Compilers for Many-core Processor
Parallel Computing Model
Parallel Computing Application
Performance Evaluation of Parallel Software
Parallel Debugging
Performance Optimization of Parallel Software
Self Adaptive Performance Tuning
Multithreaded Parallel Programming
Many-core Parallel Programming
Software Engineering issues
Task Scheduling and Load Balancing
Fault Tolerance of Parallel Software
GPU-based or FPGA-based Parallel Computing

Important Dates

        Paper Submission Deadline: May 20. 2012
        Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2012
        Camera Ready Due: Jul 07, 2012
        Workshop: Sep. 24-28, 2012

Submission Guidelines

· Paper Format: Since the camera-ready version of accepted papers must be compliant with the IEEE Xplore format for publication, submitted papers must comform to the following Xplore layout, page limit, and font size. This will insure a size consistency and a uniform layout for the reviewers. (With minimal changes, accepted document can be styled for publication according to Xplore requirements explained in the Xplore formatting guide, which is also in Xplore format).

PDF files only.
Maximum 9 pages for Technical Papers, maximum 5 pages for Posters.
Single-spaced
2-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format (8.5x11-inch paper, margins in inches-- top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides:0.625, and between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt ).
Format instructions for 8.5"x11": PDF
LaTeX and Word Templates: Latex, Word

Concerning the final camera-ready version: Maximum of 2 extra pages at $200/page. Camera-ready means PDF file must comply with IEEE Xplore formatting and style for publication. A conversion tool kit for converting from Word, LaTeX, and PostScript and checking compliance is now available. See the Final Submission section then.

· Only web-based submission is accepted.

Conference Website:

http://iwpaps12.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1
For information about the workshop, please contact us with zyq@mail.rdcps.ac.cn.

Tel: +86-10-62661636

Fax:+86-10-62661632

Workshop General Co-Chairs

Prof. Linbo Zhang, Vice Chief Director
Addr: State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing (LSEC)
Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
P.O. Box 2719, Beijing 100080, CHINA

Tel: +86-10-62630993
Fax: +86-10-62542285
E-mail: zlb@lsec.cc.ac.cn

http://icmsec.cc.ac.cn/staff/zlb.html

Tel: +86-10-62661636
Fax: +86-10-62661632
E-mail: zyq@mail.rdcps.ac.cn

http://www.rdcps.ac.cn/~zyq