[hpc-announce] CFP Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2016)

[Jerome Vienne]

CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION 

Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2016)

As part of

The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016)

http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/  

July 18 – July 22, 2016
The University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria 

Submission Deadline: March 07, 2016
Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters


SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES:

Benchmarks are used to quantify the ability of computers to solve problems effectively. Widely used benchmarks enable comparison between different computers, yet there are also cases where performance on many benchmarks is needed to assess performance of a particular application without running that particular application. Community agreement on a good choice of candidate benchmarks to fully evaluate parallel and distributed systems is lacking. 

Many algorithms have been proposed and appear in the state of the art of many application domains such as image processing, cryptography, pattern recognition, signal processing, document analysis, etc… In order to quantify the performance and the benefits of a new algorithms, it is necessary to benchmark them and compare them to older algorithms.  The computer architecture on which the benchmark is run is also important since it may favor some kinds of algorithms over other algorithms. 

In most cases, the benchmark problem size is really important. One wants to understand what computational resources will effectively solve the problem quickly and correctly for different problem sizes. 

This special session focuses on research works aimed at benchmarking parallel and distributed systems for solving real world problems.  Furthermore, benchmarking related contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, studies on the distribution of computation tasks and applications in different fields in computer science or from other domains are sought. 

 

The HPBench topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

-        Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization

-        Benchmarking on the Cloud, Clusters, Supercomputers

-        Benchmarking Performance of I/O

-        Benchmarking Web Services

-        Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking

-        Data Distribution for Benchmarking

-        Performance of Benchmarking Applications  (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks)

-        Scalability of Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems

-        Benchmarking Scientific and Business Parallel Applications

-        Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation

-        Applications (not limited to): image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, solution of differential equations, etc. 


PAPER SUBMISSIONS
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, applications and cloud computing for benchmarking.  Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to  http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers/call-for-posters for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have.  Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. 

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the Special Session paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2016.  Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. 

Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above.  Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews.  Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, and references.  Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted.  At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2016 conference to present the paper at the Special Session. 

PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will be made available at the time of the meeting. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2016 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in major indexing services accordingly. 


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Jerome Vienne, Ph.D
Research Associate
Texas Advanced Computing Center
The University of Texas at Austin
(512) 475-9322
viennej at tacc.utexas.edu