[hpc-announce] WORD'19 at ASPLOS 2019

[Kinsy, Michel]

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WORD'19: The 1st Workshop on Resource Disaggregation will be co-located with ASPLOS'19

Overview:
Recent hardware developments and application trends are challenging the long-standing datacenter architecture where a server is the unit of deployment, operation, and failure.  With the current server-centric datacenter architecture, it is fundamentally difficult to fully utilize, add, remove, or reorganize hardware components. A promising solution to these issues is to physically or virtually disaggregate hardware resources. Physical resource disaggregation breaks a computer server into independent, network-attached hardware devices. Virtual resource disaggregation maintains existing server model and uses resources on remote machines virtually.

The 1st Workshop on Resource Disaggregation (WORD'19) will bring together researchers and practitioners in hardware, software, networking, programming language, and application domains to engage in a lively discussion on a wide range of topics in the broad definition of resource disaggregation, including both physical and virtual resource disaggregation. We solicit both position papers that explore new challenges and design spaces and short papers that include completed or early-stage work. 

Workshop Topics:
- Hardware design for resource disaggregation
- Network for resource disaggregation
- Disaggregated and remote memory
- Disaggregated and remote storage 
- Simulation and measurement of disaggregated cluster
- Resource management of disaggregated cluster
- Deployment of disaggregated cluster
- Application and programming models for resource disaggregation
- Virtualization of disaggregated hardware

Workshop Organizers & Program Co-Chairs:
   Yiying Zhang, Purdue University
   Christina Delimitrou, Cornell University
   Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University

Important Dates:
Paper submissions due: Feb 27, 2019
Notification: March 17, 2019
Final paper due: April 5, 2019
Workshop date: April 13, 2019

Submission Details: 
Submissions must be no longer than 4 pages including figures and tables, plus as many pages as needed for references. Text should be formatted in two columns on 8.5 x 11-inch paper using 10-point Times-Roman font on 12-point (single-spaced) leading, 1-inch margins, and a 0.25-inch gutter (separation between the columns). The title, author names, affiliations, and an abstract should appear on the first page. Pages should be numbered. Figures and tables should not require magnification for viewing; they may contain color, but should be legible when printed or displayed in black and white. Submissions not meeting these criteria will be rejected without review, and no deadline extensions will be granted for reformatting. Papers should be submitted as PDF files via the web submission form.

Questions?
Please contact the co-chairs (yiying at purdue.edu, delimitrou at cornell.edu, hweather at cs.cornell.edu) if you have any questions.

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[On Behalf of the Organizing Committee]
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Michel A. Kinsy, PhD
Assistant Professor
Adaptive and Secure Computing Systems (ASCS) Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
8 Saint Mary’s Street, Boston MA 02215
Office: PHO 335 - Phone: (617) 353 - 0037