<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">[Apologize for multiple/cross-postings]</span></div><p class="style4 style4" align="center"><strong><br></strong></p><p class="style4 style4" align="center"><strong>3rd International Workshop on Petascale Data Analytics: Challenges and
Opportunities (PDAC-12)</strong><br>
(aka <span style="font-weight: bold;">Big Data Analytics</span>)<br><br>
In Cooperation with ACM/IEEE SC12, 12 November 2012, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. <br>
<a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/knowledgediscovery/CloudComputing/PDAC-SC12/" title="SSTDM-08 CFP" target="_blank">http://www.ornl.gov/sci/knowledgediscovery/CloudComputing/PDAC-SC12/
</a></p><p class="style4 style4" align="center"><strong>Call
For Papers </strong> </p>
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<caption class="style4 style4"> <span class="style10">Important
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Submission </td>
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<div align="right"><p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">September 17, 2012</span><br>
September 30, 2012<br>
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<td class="style4 style4" height="21">Acceptance
Notice </td>
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<div align="right">October 15, 2012 </div>
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</table><p class="style4 style4">The 2nd International Workshop on
Petascale Data Analytics: Challenges, and Opportunities (PDAC-12), to
be held in cooperation with 24th IEEE/ACM International Conference for
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC12),
provides an international platform to share and discuss recent research
results in adopting high-end computing including clouds and distributed
computing resources for petascale - exascale data frameworks,
analytics, and visualization. </p><p class="style4 style4"><strong>Synopsis</strong>: In
the last ten years, computing capability has increased many-fold, and
correspondingly data volumes have grown by an even larger amount. Many
traditional application domains have now become data intensive. It is
estimated that organizations with high-performance computing
infrastructures and data centers are doubling the amount of data that
they are archiving every year. Recent advances in computing
architectures require that middleware and application software be
reengineered to fully exploit heterogeneous resources, memory
hierarchies, and I/O pipelines.
Cloud computing has become a practical and cost effective solution for
providers and consumers, ranging from business analytics to scientific
computing. The utility of cloud computing has been shown to provide
significant benefits in data mining, machine learning and knowledge
discovery. Cloud computing also has great potential to revolutionize
extreme scale data analytics; but there are many obstacles which must
be overcome to gain wide spread adoption. The integration of HPC and
cloud infrastructure, for example, must be addressed in a manner that
is both usable and scalable. This workshop intends to bring together
members of academia, government and industry to discuss new and
emerging trends in computing architectures, programming models, I/O
services, and data analytics. This workshop will also identify the
greatest challenges in embracing high-end computing infrastructure for
scaling I/O and algorithms to extreme scale datasets.
We invite researchers, developers, and users to participate in this
workshop to share, contribute, and discuss the emerging challenges in
developing knowledge discovery solutions and frameworks targeting
clouds and high-end computing platforms.
</p><p class="style4 style4"><strong>Topics</strong>:
The major topics of interest to the workshop include but are not
limited to: </p>
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<li>Programing models and tools needed for data mining (DM),
machine learning (ML), and knowledge discovery (KD)</li>
<li>Fault tolerant data mining in clouds</li>
<li>Storing and mining the streaming data in clouds</li>
<li>Programming models for the integration of HPC and cloud
technologies</li>
<li>I/O pipelines</li>
<li>Techniques for visualizing massive datasets</li>
<li>Visualization in virtualized environments</li>
<li>Storage technologies for clouds</li>
<li>Data movement and caching </li>
<li>Distributed file systems</li>
<li>Scalability and complexity issues</li>
<li>Security and privacy issues</li>
<li>Algorithms that best suit cloud and distributed computing
platforms </li>
<li>Performance studies comparing various distributed file
systems for data intensive applications</li>
<li>Performance comparisons between clouds and HPC systems</li>
<li>Workflow technologies for cloud computing</li>
<li>Customizations and extensions of existing software
infrastructures such as Hadoop and Dryad for extreme scale data
analytics</li>
<li>Applications and case studies</li>
<li>Future research challenges for petascale data analytics and
beyond</li>
</ul><p class="style4 style4"><strong>Paper Submission: </strong>This
is an
open call-for-papers. We invite regular research paper submissions
(maximum 10 pages), work-in-progress (5 pages), demo papers (3 pages),
and position papers (3 pages). For detailed submission instructions and
paper templates, consult PDAC-12
(<a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/knowledgediscovery/CloudComputing/PDAC-SC12/">http://www.ornl.gov/sci/knowledgediscovery/CloudComputing/PDAC-SC12/</a>)
website. All a<span class="style1">ccepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE digital libary.</span> </p><p class="style4 style4"><strong>Organizing
Committee:</strong></p><p class="style4 style4"><strong>Program Chairs</strong><br>
Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA <br>
<span class="style1">Scott A Klasky, </span>Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, USA<br>
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA </p><p class="style1 style4"><strong>Publicity Chairs</strong><br>
Varun Chandola, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA</p><p class="style1 style4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Program Committee </span>(under construction)<br>
Mohammad H. Abbasi, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, USA <br>
Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA <br>
Kanishka Bhaduri, NASA, USA <br>
Joydeep Ghosh, UT-Austin, USA <br>
Amol Ghoting, IBM T. J. Watson Research <br>
Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA <br>
Kun Liu, Yahoo! Labs, USA <br>
Yan Liu, IBM TJ Watson, USA <br>
Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA <br>
Gerald F. Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories, USA <br>
Kenneth Moreland, Sandia National Laboratories, USA<br>
Norbert Podhorszki, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, USA <br>
Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA <br>
Joel H. Saltz, Emory University, US <br>
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA <br>
Kesheng (John) Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA</p><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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