International Workshop on the Computing Continuum 2020

IWCoCo 2020


Computer Hardware Design Computing Systems



########### Call of Papers ###########
https://easychair.org/cfp/IWCOCO_2020
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This is the first International Workshop on the Computing Continuum 2020 to be held on 20th January 2020 in conjunction with the HiPEAC 2020 conference in Bologna.
The face of computing has changed dramatically in recent years. A large variety of devices such as simple sensors and microcontrollers, edge computers, mobile devices, laptops, servers, clusters, and HPC systems build a ubiquitous infrastructure, called the Computing Continuum. Many of today’s applications from areas such as industrial production (Industry 4.0), social networks, precision medicine, and large scientific experiments require a dynamically varying amount of compute and storage capacity for gathering and processing large data sets to form the basis for advanced services. The need for dynamics is due to changes in the data rates, the services request rates, as well as the delivery process.
The resources of the continuum are typically shared among different tenants and applications. Sharing resources is, for example, the driving force in today’s cloud offerings and their extensions into distributed infrastructures in the form of edge and fog computing as well as the mobile extensions based on radio networks. Efficient sharing requires dynamic and data- and application-aware scheduling of tasks onto the available resources. Further, careful resource management and resource isolation are used to enable performance guarantees. This is especially important in HPC and embedded computing. Sharing reduces over-provisioning but requires careful dynamic management of shared resources, including on-chip communication, memory hierarchy, and power.
This workshop goal is to gather application scenarios as well as resource management technologies for the Computing Continuum.
########### Submission Guidelines ###########
We are looking for visionary presentations, technical presentations, experience reports, and presentations on current and future applications for the Computing Continuum. We would like to assemble a diverse program that covers as many aspects as possible to guide future work in the direction of the Computing Continuum.
To facilitate the submission of presentations, we ask for extended abstracts (1-2 pages). Please submit your proposal via the EasyChair system of IWCoCo 2020 before 30th October 2019.
The abstracts will be reviewed and selected abstracts will be invited for a presentation.
########### List of Topics ###########
Topics to be covered include:
Distributed scientific, social, web, IoT, and enterprise applications
Application architecture models such as workflows, microservices, function-as-a-service, and cloud native applications, streaming applications
Concepts for resource-aware programming
Application characterization and performance modeling
Dynamic application tuning for performance and energy
Smart orchestration and self-adaptive resource provisioning
Horizontal and vertical auto-scaling across cloud and edge
Operating system concepts
Computer systems and computer architectures for the compute continuum
Communication models
########### Program Committee (tentative)###########
Felix Wolf, University of Darmstadt
Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich
Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab
Tobias Schüle, Siemens
Vladimir Podolskiy, Technical University of Munich
Shajulin Benedict, IIIT Kottayam, India
Michaela Blott, Xilinx
Nikil Dutt, UC Irvine
Axel Jantsch, TU Vienna
Paolo Ienne, EPFL
Luca Benini, ETH Zurich
Andreas Gerstlauer, UT Austin
Robert Szabo, Ericsson Research & Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Erik Elmroth, Umeå University
Kenneth B. Kent, University of New Brunswick
Song Fu, University of North Texas
Panos Patros, University of Waikato
Babak Falsafi, EPFL
########### Organizing committee ###########
Michael Gerndt, Technical University of Munich
Sven Karlsson, Ericsson
Walter Stechele, Technical University of Munich
########### Venue ###########
The workshop will be held at Bologna Polo Congressuale in Bologna, Italy in conjunction with HiPEAC 2020 conference on 20th January 2020 as a full-day workshop.