[hpc-announce] [CFP] RE-HPC 2016 - First Int'l Workshop on Resilience and/or Energy-aware techniques for High-Performance Computing

[Hongyang Sun]

CALL FOR PAPERS

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First International Workshop on Resilience and/or Energy-aware
techniques for High-Performance Computing (RE-HPC)

In conjunction with the International Green and Sustainable
Computing  Conference (IGSC), 2016.

November 7-9, Hangzhou, China.

Website: http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~abenoit/RE-HPC/

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Resilience and energy consumption have become two important concerns for
high-performance computing (HPC) systems. With the increasing core count
and technology miniaturization, today's large computing platforms
(datacenters, clusters, supercomputers, etc.) are increasingly prone to
failures. Faults are becoming norm rather than exception. Besides the
classical fail-stop errors (such as hardware failures), soft errors (such
as SDCs for silent data corruptions) constitute another threat that can no
longer be ignored by the HPC community. Another concern is energy.
Presently, large computing centers are among the largest consumers of
energy, hence measures must be taken to reduce energy consumption. Energy
is needed not only to power the individual cores but also to provide
cooling for the system. In today's datacenters, a large proportion of
energy is spent on cooling and thermal-related activities. It is
anticipated that the power dissipated to perform communications and I/O
transfers will also make up a much larger share of the overall power
consumption. The relative cost of communication is expected to increase
dramatically, both in terms of latency/overhead and of consumed energy.
Re-designing algorithms for HPC systems to ensure resilience and to reduce
energy consumption will be crucial to achieving sustained performance. The
link between resilience and energy must also be carefully tackled. Better
resilience often requires redundancy (replication and/or checkpointing,
rollback and recovery), which consumes extra energy. Hot cores may lead to
less resilient computing or increase the probability of individual
failures. On the other hand, reducing the energy consumption via
voltage/frequency scaling techniques will increase the application running
time, and hence the expected number of failures during execution.

This workshop will encompass a broad range of topics related to resilience
and energy efficiency for HPC. Its objective is to facilitate exchange of
valuable information and ideas among researchers and practitioners. Topics
of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Fault-tolerant algorithms, tools, and protocols
- Checkpointing, replication, and recovery techniques
- Detection and prediction of soft errors and SDCs
- System reliability, testing, and verification
- Resilience models, algorithms, and simulations
- Energy-efficient scheduling and resource management
- Power-aware runtime systems
- Energy-efficient I/O, storage, and networking
- Thermal behavior modeling, control and management
- Cooling-aware optimizations and evaluations
- Tradeoffs between performance, reliability, energy and temperature


*Important Dates: *

Paper Submission:   August 1, 2016
Author Notification: September 15, 2016
Camera-ready Paper: October 1, 2016


*Author Information:*

Full papers following the guidelines of the International Green and
Sustainable Computing (IGSC) Conference (http://igsc.eecs.wsu.edu/cfp_16)
are sought. Authors should select Resilience and/or Energy-aware techniques
for High-Performance Computing (RE-HPC'16) when submitting their papers on
easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rehpc16). All submitted
manuscripts will be reviewed and evaluated on correctness, originality,
technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and
relevance to the scope of the workshop. Papers presented at the workshop
will be published in the official conference proceedings (through IEEE
Digital Library) contingent on two conditions: (1) One author of each
accepted paper must register for the conference at the time of the
submission of the final manuscript and (2) One of the authors must appear
to present the paper at the workshop. Please note that each accepted
workshop paper will require a full IGSC registration at the IEEE member or
at the non-member rate (NOT student rate). This means that there is no
separate workshop-only registration.


*Workshop Co-Chairs:*

Anne Benoit, ENS de Lyon, France
Jean-Marc Pierson, University of Toulouse, France
Hongyang Sun, ENS de Lyon, France


*Program Committee:*

Guillaume Aupy, Vanderbilt University, USA
Leonardo Bautista-Gomez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Georges Da Costa, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China
Amina Guermouche, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Sebastien Lafond, Åbo Akademi University and Turku Center for Computer
Science, Finland
Herman Meer, University of Passau, Germany
Rami Melhem, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ariel Oleksiak, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Enrique Quintana-Orti, HPCA, Jeaume, Spain
Leonel Sousa, INESC, Portugal
Patricia Stolf, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France


*Contact:  *

Please email hongyang.sun at ens-lyon.fr for any questions.
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