[hpc-announce] WACCPD15 Workshop @ SC15

[Sunita Chandrasekaran]

*Second Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives (WACCPD15) *


co-located with


*SC15:* The International Conference for High Performance Computing,
Networking, Storage, and Analysis Nov 15-20, 2015 Austin, TX, USA
http://sc15.supercomputing.org/



*Call for Papers:*

Directive-based programming models offer scientific applications a path on
to HPC platforms without undue loss of portability or programmer
productivity. Using directives, application developers can port their codes
to the accelerators incrementally while minimizing code changes. Challenges
remain because the directives models need to support a rapidly evolving
array of hardware with diverse memory subsystems, which may or may not be
unified. The programming model will need to adapt to such developments,
make improvements to raise its performance portability that will make
accelerators as first-class citizens for HPC. Such improvements are being
continuously discussed within the standard committees such as OpenMP and
OpenACC. This workshop aims to capture the assessment of the improved
feature set, their implementations and experiences with their deployment in
HPC applications. The workshop aims at bringing together the user and tools
community to share their knowledge and experiences of using directives to
program accelerators.



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



- Experience porting applications in any domain using directives

- Extensions to and shortcomings of current accelerator directives APIs

- Hybrid heterogeneous or many-core programming with accelerator directives
with other models (i.e.OpenMP, MPI, OpenSHMEM)

- Scientific libraries interoperability with accelerator directives

- Experiences in implementing compilers for accelerator directives on new
architectures

- Low level communication APIs or runtimes that support accelerator
directives

- Asynchronous execution and scheduling (heterogeneous tasks)

- Extensions to programming models supporting memory hierarchies

- Performance evaluation

- Power / energy studies

- Static analysis and verification tools

- Modeling and performance analysis tools

- Auto-tuning or optimization strategies

- Benchmarks and validation suites



*Paper Submission Guidelines:*
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waccpd15


*Program Chair and Co-Chairs: *

Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Houston

Fernanda Foertter, ORNL



*Steering Committee: *

Barbara Chapman (UH, cOMPunity)

Jeffrey Vetter (ORNL)

Satoshi Matsuoka (Titech)

Thomas Schulthess (ORNL)

Duncan Poole (OpenACC)

Oscar Hernandez (ORNL)



*Program Committee:*

Michael Heroux (SNL), Jeff Larkin (NVIDIA), James Beyer (Cray), Mark
Govette (NOAA), Ray Sheppard(Indiana U), Guido Juckeland (TU Dresden), Will
Sawyer (CSCS), Michael Wolfe (NVIDIA/PGI), Thomas Swinge (Mentor Graphics),
John Mellor-Crummy (Rice), Henri Callandra (Total), Wayne Joubert (ORNL)
David Berntholdt (ORNL), Sameer Shende (U Oregon), Seyong Lee (ORNL), Henri
Jin (NASA-Ames), Jeff Hammond (Intel Labs), Richard Barrett (SNL), Chunhua
Liao (LLNL), Carl Ponder (NVIDIA) Si Hammond (SNL), Michael Klemm (Intel),
Christos Kartsaklis (ORNL), Makus Eisenbach (ORNL), Eric Stotzer (TI)



*Important Deadlines <will be adjusted based on requests from SIGHPC>:*

August 22nd, 2015 (Midnight 11:59 Pacific Time Zone)

Author notification: September 30th, 2015

Camera Ready papers due: October 2nd, 2015



*Keynote Speaker:*

*Barbara Chapman,* a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Director of the Center for Advanced Computing and Data Systems (CACDS),
University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA has been engaged in research on
parallel programming languages and compiler technology for more than 15
years. Her research group has developed OpenUH, a state-of-the art open
source compiler that is used to explore language, compiler and runtime
techniques, with a special focus on multithreaded programming. Dr. Chapman
has been involved with the evolution of the OpenMP directive-based
programming standard since 2001. She also is a participant in the OpenSHMEM
and OpenACC programming standards efforts. Her on-going research continues
to advance these efforts. It also explores new approaches to optimize
partitioned global address space programs, strategies for runtime code
optimizations, compiler-tools interactions and high-level programming
models for embedded systems.

Prof. Chapman completed her Ph.D.  on software support for distributed
memory programming at Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K.



*Panel Session *

A panel session will be dedicated to discussion of current open problems,
applications' requirements, drawbacks and future evolutions of high-level
directive approaches for current and emerging architectures. A roadmap for
accelerator directives will also be discussed.
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