[hpc-announce] CFP: AsHES 2016 [Update: Journal Special Issue Confirmed]

[Antonio J. Peña]

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AsHES 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Sixth International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale 
Systems (AsHES)
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2016
May 23rd, 2016

To be held in conjunction with
30th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 
<http://www.ipdps.org>
Chicago Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Important Dates (AoE)
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Paper Submission: Jan. 08, 2016
Paper Notification: Feb. 18, 2016
Camera-Ready: Feb. 25, 2016

Workshop Scope and Goals
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Current and emerging systems are deployed with heterogeneous 
architectures and accelerators
of more than one type (e.g. GPGPU, Intel® Xeon Phi(tm), FPGA) along with 
hybrid processors of
both lightweight and heavyweight cores (e.g APU, big.LITTLE). Such 
architectures also comprise
hybrid memory systems equipped with stacked/hierarchical memory and 
non-volatile memory in
addition to regular DRAM. Programming such a system can be a real 
challenge along with locality,
scheduling, load balancing, concurrency and so on.

This workshop focuses on understanding the implications of accelerators 
and heterogeneous
designs on the hardware systems, porting applications, performing 
compiler optimizations, and
developing programming environments for current and emerging systems. It 
seeks to ground
accelerator research through studies of application kernels or whole 
applications on such
systems, as well as tools and libraries that improve the performance and 
productivity of
applications on these systems.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and 
practitioners who are involved in
application studies for accelerators and other heterogeneous systems, to 
learn the opportunities
and challenges in future design trends for HPC applications and systems.


Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited 
to):

   * Strategies for programming heterogeneous systems using high-level 
models such as
     OpenMP, OpenACC, low-level models such as OpenCL, CUDA;
   * Methods and tools to tackle challenges in scientific computing at 
extreme scale;
   * Strategies for application behavior characterization and 
performance optimization for
     accelerators;
   * Techniques for optimizing kernels for execution on GPGPU, Intel® 
Xeon Phi™, and future
     heterogeneous platforms;
   * Models of application performance on heterogeneous and accelerated 
HPC systems;
   * Compiler Optimizations and tuning heterogeneous systems including 
parallelization, loop
     transformation, locality optimizations, Vectorization;
   * Implications of workload characterization in heterogeneous and 
accelerated architecture
     design;
   * Benchmarking and performance evaluation for accelerators;
   * Tools and techniques to address both performance and correctness to 
assist application
     development for accelerators and heterogeneous processors;
   * System software techniques to abstract application domain-specific 
functionalities for
     accelerators;

Papers Submission Guidelines
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Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient 
background material to
make them accessible to the broader community.

Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column 
pages using 10-point
size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including 
figures, tables, and references.
See the style templates for latex or word for details.

Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, 
originality, correctness and clarity.

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ashes2016

Journal Special Issue
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The best papers of AsHES 2016 will be included in a *Special Issue on 
TBD* of the
Elsevier International Journal on Parallel Computing (PARCO) 
<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/parallel-computing/>, edited by Sunita 
Chandrasekaran
and Antonio J. Peña. This special issue is dedicated for the papers 
accepted in the AsHES
workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only.

Steering Committee
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Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Jiayuan Meng, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA
Guang R. Gao, University of Delaware, USA
Xinmin Tian, Intel, USA
Michael Wong, IBM, Canada

General Chair
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James Dinan, Intel Corporation

Program Chair and Co-Chairs
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Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA
Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Program Committee
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Sangmin Seo, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
Anthony Danalis, University of Tennessee, USA
Gabriele Jost, Intel Corporation, USA
Jeff Hammond, Intel Labs, USA
Seeyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, USA
John Lidel, Texas Tech University, USA
James Beyer, Cray Inc., USA
Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Mahantesh M Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Stephen Olivier, Sandia Nationl Lab, USA
Guido Juckeland, TU Dresden, Germany
Matthias Muller, TU Aachen, Germany
Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Hennry Jin, NASA, USA
Dong Li, University of Calfornia, Merced, USA
Khaled Hamidouche, The Ohio State University, USA
Huimin Cui, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS
Xipeng Shen, North Carolina State University, USA
Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Hao Wang, Virginia Tech, USA
Naoya Maruyama, RIKEN AICS
Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, NVIDIA Corporation, USA
Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Nacho Navarro, UPC- Univesity Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Kelly Shaw, University of Richmond, USA
Yongpeng Zhang, Stone Ridge Technology, USA
Fangfang Xia, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Questions?
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Please send any queries about the AsHES workshop to ashes at mcs.anl.gov

-- 
Antonio J. Peña, PhD
Senior Researcher
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
http://www.bsc.es/about-bsc/staff-directory/pena-antonio



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