[hpc-announce] 6th Workshop on EXTREME-SCALE PROGRAMMING TOOLS (ESPT) at SC17 (deadline 9/2)

[Allen D. Malony]

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			      CALL FOR PAPERS

	  6th Workshop on EXTREME-SCALE PROGRAMMING TOOLS (ESPT)

		      Held in conjunction with SC17:
	The International Conference on High Performance Computing,
		     Networking, Storage and Analysis

			      Denver, CO, USA
		      Sunday, November 12, 9am-5:30pm

	    http://www.vi-hps.org/symposia/espt/espt-sc17.html

Supported by Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS)

		  Submission Deadline: September 2, 2017
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The path to exascale computing will challenge HPC application developers in
their quest to achieve the maximum potential that the machines have to
offer. Factors such as limited power budgets, clock frequency variability,
heterogeneous load imbalance, hierarchical memories, and shrinking I/O
bandwidths will make it increasingly difficult to create high-performance
applications. Tools for debugging, performance measurement and analysis,
and tuning will be needed to overcome the architectural, system, and
programming complexities envisioned in exascale environments. At the same
time, research and development progress for HPC tools faces equally
difficult challenges from exascale factors. Increased emphasis on
autotuning, dynamic monitoring and adaptation, heterogeneous analysis, and
so on will require new methodologies, techniques, and engagement with
application teams. This workshop will serve as a forum for HPC application
developers, system designers, and tools researchers to discuss the
requirements for exascale-enabled tools and the roadblocks that need to be
addressed. The workshop is the sixth in a series of successful SC
conference workshops organized by the Virtual Institute – High Productivity
Supercomputing (VI-HPS), an international initiative of HPC researchers and
developers focused on parallel programming and performance tools for
large-scale systems.

The workshop is the sixth in a series of SC conference workshops
organized by the Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing
(VI-HPS), an international initiative of HPC researchers and developers
focused on parallel programming and performance tools for large-scale
systems.

Workshop Format and Topics:

The full-day workshop will consist of a keynote address in the morning
followed by research paper presentations.  A possible second keynote
address will take place to start the afternoon, followed again by research
paper presentations.  A panel will close the workshop, including time for
feedback from the ESPT participants.

The workshop topics of interest include:

* Programming tools (e.g., performance analysis, tuning, debuggers, IDEs)
* Methodologies for performance engineering
* Tool technologies for extreme-scale challenges (e.g., scalability, resilience, power)
* Tool infrastructures and environments
* Evolving/future application requirements for programming tools and technologies
* Application developer experiences with programming and performance tools

Paper Submission:

Papers covering original and previously unpublished research are solicited.
Each paper submission will undergo a peer review process.  Accepted
contributions are planned to be published in a ESPT workshop proceedings.
See ESPT website for updated information.

To be considered, a manuscript should be a maximum of 8 pages and formatted
according to the double-column IEEE format for Conference Proceedings
(IEEEtran LaTeX Class (template) V1.8 packages and IEEEtran V1.12 BibTeX
(bibliography)).  Margins and font sizes should not be modified.  The
templates for "IEEEtran LaTeX Class (template) V1.8 packages and IEEEtran
V1.12 BibTeX (bibliography)" can be found at:

  http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

All papers must be submitted through Easychair at:

  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=espt2017

Important Dates:

  September 2, 2017 : Paper submissions due
  September 30, 2017: Author notification
  October 14, 2017  : Final version of papers due
  November 12, 2017 : ESPT Workshop, 9:00 - 17:30, Sunday

Workshop Organizers:

  William Jalby, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Chair
  Allen D. Malony, University of Oregon
  Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  Judit Gimenez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Contact:

  Allen D. Malony, University of Oregon
  Phone +1-541-346-4407
  Email (preferred): malony at cs.uoregon.edu

Program Committee:

Jean-Baptiste Besnard, ParaTools, SAS
Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, US
Jim Galarowicz, Krell Institute, US
Michael Gerndt, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Judit Gimenez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, University of Maryland, US
Kevin Huck, University of Oregon
William Jalby, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France (workshop chair)
Andreas Knuepfer, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany
David Lecomber, Allinea Software, US
Allen D. Malony, University of Oregon, US (co-organizer)
Heike McCraw, University of Tennessee, US
John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University, US
Barton P. Miller, University of Wisconsion, Madison, US
Pablo Oliveira, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US (co-organizer)
Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, US
Jan Treibig, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Felix Wolf, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Brian Wylie, Juelich Supercomputing Centre