[hpc-announce] COMHPC workshop @ SC’16: Submission Deadline: September 8, Keynote(Prof. Bill Gropp), Best Paper Award

Tue Sep 6 07:52:37 CDT 2016

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First International Workshop on Communication Optimizations in High Performance Computing (COMHPC)

https://software.intel.com/en-us/event/comhpc/2016/overview

In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC
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Friday, November 18, 2016

co-located with

SC16: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis<http://sc16.supercomputing.org/>

November 13-18, 2016

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Call for Papers:

As HPC applications scale to large supercomputing systems, their communication and synchronization need to be optimized in order to deliver high performance. In order to achieve this, capabilities of modern network interconnect and parallel runtime systems need to be advanced and the existing ones to be leveraged optimally. The workshop will bring together researchers and developers to present and discuss work on optimizing communication and synchronization in HPC applications. This includes state-of-the-art methodological and algorithmic advances in topology-aware or topology-oblivious blocking and non-blocking collective algorithms, offloading of communication to network interface cards, topology aware process mappings for minimizing communication overhead on different network topologies such as dragonfly, high-dimensional torus networks, fat trees, optimizations for persistent communication patterns, studies and solutions for inter-job network interference, overlapping of communication with computation, optimizing communication overhead in the presence of process imbalance, GPU-GPU and GPU-CPU communication. The workshop also aims at bringing researchers together to foster discussion, collaboration, and ideas for optimizing communication and synchronization that drive the design of future peta/exascale systems and of HPC applications. In addition, we expect that researchers and others looking for research directions in this area will get up-to-date with the state of the art so that they can drive their research in a manner that will impact the future of communication methods in high-performance computing.

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

Blocking and non-blocking collective operations
Topology-aware collective algorithms and process mappings
Neighborhood collective optimizations
Communication offloading design and optimizations (such as offloaded triggered operations)
Modeling and simulation of traffic patterns (including collectives) for generic/specific network topologies
Optimizations for persistent communication patterns
Inter-job network interference
Computation-communication overlap in HPC applications
Communication optimization in presence of process imbalance
Static/runtime tuning of collective operations
Scalable communication endpoints for many-core architectures
Communication optimizations on Peta/Exascale systems, heterogeneous systems, and GPUs
Network congestion studies and mitigation methods
Machine learning to optimize communication
Communication aspects of GPGPU
Communication aspects of Graph Applications
Communication aspects of Fault Tolerance

Important Deadlines:

Submission deadline:              September 8, 2016 AOE
Notification of Acceptance:     September 28, 2016
Camera Ready copy:              October 11, 2016
Workshop Date:                      November 18, 2016

Keynote Address

Prof. William D. Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Meeting the Communication Needs of Scalable Application
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a successful API for developing libraries and applications. In practice, however, users and developers often find performance anomalies that can significantly impact scalability. This talk will discuss some of the applications’ communication needs and how they differ from what is tested in basic communication benchmarks. Illustrations from several application codes and application benchmarks demonstrate that synchronizing data communication often limits performance, suggesting that maximizing communication bandwidth is insufficient for the applications' communication needs. These observations apply to other parallel programming models, and need to be addressed through programming model semantics and efficiently implementing programming systems that implement those models.

Paper Submission Guidelines:

Papers must follow the ACM format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). We invite two kinds of submissions to this workshop:

1. Full-length research papers (10-page limit)
2. Short papers (5-page limit), which can take the form of position papers, experience reports, work in progress, late breaking ideas, or surveys/comparisons

The page limit does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comhpc2016. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. Papers will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee for novelty, scientific merit, technical strength, originality, quality of presentation and scope of the workshop. It is also expected that at least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by SIGHPC and made available in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. One outstanding paper will be selected for the Best Paper Award by the Program Committee.

 Organizing Committee:

Michael Chuvelev (Intel, Russia)
Daniel Faraj (SGI, USA)
Maria Garzaran (UIUC and Intel, USA )
Akhil Langer (Intel, USA)
Malek Musleh (Intel, USA)
Gengbin Zheng (Intel, USA)

Program Committee:

Ahmad Afsahi (Queen’s University, Canada)
George Almasi (IBM, USA)
Abhinav Bhatele (LLNL, USA)
Bill Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Manish Gupta (Xerox Research Center, India)
Ram Huggahalli (Intel, USA)
Nikhil Jain (LLNL, USA)
David Lowenthal (University of Arizona, USA)
Vijay Pai (Google, USA)
D. K. Panda (Ohio State University, USA)
Sameh Sharkawi (IBM, USA)
Yogish Sabharwal (IBM, India)
Martin Schulz (LLNL, USA)
Bronis Supinski (LLNL, USA)
Sayantan Sur (Intel, USA)
Michela Taufer (University of Delaware, USA)
Keith Underwood (Intel, USA)
Abhinav Vishnu (PNNL, USA)
Alan Wagner (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Xin Yuan (Florida State University, USA)

Contact:

Please email comhpc.org at gmail.com<mailto:comhpc.org at gmail.com> for any questions.

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