[hpc-announce] Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis (VPA)

[Schulz Martin]

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis (VPA)
http://cedmav.org/events/vpa-2015.html

Held in conjunction with SC15:
The International Conference on
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
Austin, TX, USA
November 20th, 2015


Important Dates
- July 27th: submission deadline for full and short papers
- September 8th: notification of acceptance
- October 5th: final paper and copyrights due

Contact
- vpa15 at easychair.org
  
Over the last decades an incredible amount of resources has been devoted to
building ever more powerful supercomputers. However, exploiting the full
capabilities of these machines is becoming exponentially more difficult
with
each new generation of hardware. To help understand and optimize the
behavior
of massively parallel simulations the performance analysis community has
created a wide range of tools and APIs to collect performance data, such as
flop counts, network traffic or cache behavior at the largest scale.
However,
this success has created a new challenge, as the resulting data is far too
large and too complex to be analyzed in a straightforward manner.
Therefore,
new automatic analysis approaches must be developed to allow application
developers to intuitively understand the multiple, interdependent effects
that
their algorithmic choices have on the final performance.
?This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from the
areas
of performance analysis, application optimization, visualization, and data
analysis and provide a forum to discuss novel ideas on how to improve
performance understanding, analysis and optimization through novel
techniques
in scientific and information visualization.


Workshop Topics
- Scalable displays of performance data
- Interactive visualization of performance data
- Data models to enable data analysis and visualization
- Graph representation of unstructured performance data
- Collection and representation of meta data to enable fine grained
attribution
- Message trace visualization
- Memory and network traffic visualization
- Representation of hardware architectures


Paper Submission

We solicit two types of papers both covering original and previously
unpublished
ideas: 8 page regular papers and 4 page short papers. All papers must be
submitted
through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vpa2015


Workshop Organizers
- Peer-Timo Bremer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Centre
- Valerio Pascucci, University of Utah
- Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


Program Committee
- Holger Brunst, ZIH / TU Dresden
- Remco Chang, Tufts University
- Hank Childs, University of Oregon
- Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet
- Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Marc-Andre Hermanns, Jülich Supercomputing Centre
- Judit Gimenez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center / Universitat Politecnica
de Catalunya
- Kevin Huck, University of Oregon
- Daniel Keim, Universitaet Konstanz
- Joshua Levine, Clemson University
- Naoya Maruyama, RIKEN AICS
- John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University
- Klaus Mueller, Stonybrook
- Matthias Mueller, RWTH Aachen University
- Paul Rosen, University of Utah
- Carlos Scheidegger, University of Arizona
- Derek Xiaoyu Wang, UNC Charlotte
- Felix Wolf, German Research School for Simulation Sciences