[hpc-announce] #SC17 Extended Submission Deadline: Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives (WACCPD)

[Sunita Chandrasekaran]

IEEE Fourth Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives (WACCPD)
http://waccpd.org/
Monday, November 13, 2017

co-located with SC17
http://sc17.supercomputing.org/



*WORKSHOP DEADLINES  (Note camera ready deadline is after the workshop)*Paper
Submission Deadline: August 22, 2017 August 30, 2017
Author notification: September 30, 2017
Workshop Ready Deadline: October 10, 2017
Camera Ready Deadline: December 08, 2017
Books published online: Tentatively week of Feb 12, 2018

*KEYNOTE SPEAKER:*
Dr. John E. Stone
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/
Details of the talk : TBA

*CALL FOR PAPERS*
Technological advances in hardware have been instrumental in analyzing and
processing large volumes of data found in abundance in several scientific
fields including biology, climate science, nuclear energy, national
security and many others. One of the hard realities is that the hardware
continues to evolve very rapidly with varied memory hierarchies,
heterogeneous compute cores consisting of various types of accelerators
with primary design constraints being power consumption and the cost of
data movement. The HPC community has been in constant and dire need for
sophisticated software tools and techniques to port legacy code to these
emerging platforms.
Given the complexity in hardware, maintaining a single code base yet
achieving performance portable solution continues to pose a daunting task.
Directive-based programming models such as OpenACC, OpenMP have been
tackling this issue by offering scientists a high-level approach to
accelerate scientific applications and develop solutions that are portable
and yet do not compromise on performance or accuracy. Such programming
paradigm has facilitated complex heterogeneous systems to be classified as
first-class citizens for HPC!
To address the rapid pace of hardware evolution, software developers
continue to explore language features and abstractions and build high-level
directive-based programming models, its effective compiler and runtime
components thus reducing the programming burden on application scientists.
This workshop aims to solicit papers that explore innovative language
features and their implementations, stories and lessons learnt while using
directives to migrate scientific legacy code to parallel processors,
state-of-the-art compilation and runtime scheduling techniques, performance
optimization and analysis on state-of-the-art hardware and so on.
We are looking forward to continuing to host this workshop at SC17. WACCPD
in the past years has been one of the major forums at SC bringing together
users, developers, software and tools community together to share knowledge
and experiences to program emerging complex parallel computing systems.

*TOPICS OF INTEREST (BUT NOT LIMITED TO)*
- Compiler and Runtime support for current and emerging architectures
- Language-based extensions
- Memory management using directives
- Performance evaluation and lessons learnt
- Auto-tuning and optimization strategies
- Programming experience porting applications in any domain
- 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 newer
architectures
- Low level communication APIs or runtimes that support accelerator
directives
- Asynchronous execution and scheduling (heterogeneous tasks)
- Power / energy studies
- Static analysis and verification tools
- Modeling and performance analysis tools
- Benchmarks and validation suites


*IMPORTANT DEADLINES*
Paper Submission Deadline: August 22, 2017 August 30, 2017
    •    Author notification: September 30, 2017
    •    Workshop Ready Deadline: October 10, 2017
    •    Camera Ready Deadline: December 08, 2017
    •    Books published online: Tentatively week of Feb 12, 2018

*An award for the Best Paper will be given. *


*PAPER PROCEEDINGS*
WACCPD papers will be peer-reviewed and selected for presentation at the
workshop.
Papers will then be published as a post-proceedings in Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS). This means the camera ready version is due after
the workshop.
This is so that you improve your paper for the camera-ready version based
on feedback received from the workshop along with reviews from the
peer-review process.

*PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waccpd2017.
They must follow the Springer LNCS format. Submissions are limited to 20
pages. The 20-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does
not include references, for which there is no page limit.
Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for
a different workshop, conference or journal.
In submitting the paper, the authors acknowledge that at least one author
of an accepted submission will register for and attend the workshop.


*STEERING COMMITTEE*
    •    Barbara Chapman (StonyBrook University, cOMPunity, USA)
    •    Michael Klemm (Intel, Germany)
    •    Oscar Hernandez (ORNL, USA)
    •    Kuan-Ching Li (Providence University, Taiwan)
    •    Satoshi Matsuoka (Titech, Japan)
    •    Duncan Poole (OpenACC)
    •    Thomas Schulthess (ORNL, USA)
    •    Jeff Vetter (ORNL, USA)

*PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS*
    •    Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden,
Germany
    •    Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

    •        David Bernholdt (ORNL, USA)
    •        James Beyer (NVIDIA, USA)
    •        Robert Dietrich (TU Dresden, Germany)
    •        Makus Eisenbach (ORNL, USA)
    •        Manisha Gajbe (Intel, USA)
    •        Mark Govett (NOAA, USA)
    •        Jeff Hammond (Intel Labs, USA)
    •        Si Hammond (SNL, USA)
    •        Christian Iwainsky (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
    •        Adrian Jackson (EPCC, UK)
    •        Arpith J. Jacob (IBM, USA)
    •        Henri Jin (NASA-Ames, USA)
    •        Wayne Joubert (ORNL, USA)
    •        Michael Klemm (Intel, Germany)
    •        Jeff Larkin (NVIDIA, USA)
    •        Seyong Lee (ORNL, USA)
    •        CJ Newburn (NVIDIA, USA)
    •        Antonio J. Pena (BSC, Spain)
    •        Thomas Schwinge (Mentor Graphics, Germany)
    •        Sameer Shende (U Oregon, USA)
    •        Ray Sheppard(Indiana U, USA)
    •        Peter Steinbach (Scionics, Germany)
    •        Christian Terboven (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
    •        Xiaonan Tian (NVIDIA/PGI, USA)
    •        Veronica Vergarra Larrea (ORNL, USA)
    •        Cheng Wang (Microsoft, USA)
    •        Michael Wolfe (NVIDIA/PGI, USA)


*Contact: *
Pls email organizers at waccpd.org  for any questions.
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