[hpc-announce] CFP: LHAM 2017 (Abstract due: Aug 1)

[Fumihiko INO]

CALL FOR PAPERS:

LHAM 2017: The 5th International Workshop on Legacy HPC Application
Migration November 19-22, 2017, Aomori, Japan, to be held in
conjunction with CANDAR.  Workshop website:
http://is-candar.org/lham17/

===== Important dates =====
 * Workshop abstract submission due: August 1, 2017
 * Workshop paper submission due: August 6, 2017
 * Workshop author notification: September 10, 2017
 * Final camera-ready paper submission due: September 22, 2017

See more details at: http://is-candar.org/schedule

In HPC software development, a high priority is given to
performance. Many application developers usually adapt their
application programs for a particular system to fully exploit the
potential of the system with system-specific optimizations. Whenever
their target system is updated to an emerging system, they are
required to evolve the application programs to maximize the
performance on the new generation system. This is so-called legacy HPC
application migration. The migration cost increases with the hardware
complexity of target systems, and moreover, future HPC systems are
expected to be extremely massive and heterogeneous. Therefore,
software evolution will require more efforts and will be essential for
scaling up the performance in the upcoming extreme-scale computing
era.

The goal of this workshop is to share practices and experiences on
software evolution such as modernizing legacy applications on the
latest HPC systems, and also discuss coming and developing
technologies and research directions to improve the performance and
productivity of applications on emerging systems. In particular, we
will focus on the following topics of interest, but not limited to:

 - Programming models, languages and frameworks for facilitating HPC
   software evolution and refactoring.

 - Algorithms and implementation methodologies for future-generation
   computing systems, including manycores and accelerators (GPUs, Xeon
   Phi, etc).

 - Automatic performance tuning techniques, runtime systems and
   domain-specific languages for hiding the complexity of underlying
   system architectures.

 - Practices and experiences on porting of legacy applications and
   libraries.

The LHAM is to be held in conjunction with CANDAR'17
http://is-candar.org/

===== Paper format =====
 - Regular paper: 5-7 pages
 - Poster paper: 3-4 pages

===== Submission Instruction =====
Please see Workshop Paper Submission Instruction.
    http://is-candar.org/workshop_submission

===== Publication =====
The conference and workshop proceedings will be published by
Conference Publishing Service

    http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/

and submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL digital libraries. Also they are
submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI,
and other indexing services.

===== Special Issue =====
We plan to publish extended versions of selected papers in IEICE
Transactions on Information and Systems
(http://search.ieice.org/bin/index.php?category=D&lang=E&curr=1) and
in International Journal of Networking and Computing
(http://ijnc.org/). Please see the following URL
http://is-candar.org/special_issue for the details.

===== Organizers =====

==== Workshop Chair: ====

 - Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan

==== Program Chair: ====

 - Fumihiko Ino, Osaka University, Japan

==== Advisory Committee: ====

 - Wen-mei Hwu, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
 - Chisachi Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan
 - Michael Resch, The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany

==== Program Committee: ====

 - Ritu Arora, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin, USA
 - Carlo Cavazzoni, CINECA, Italy
 - Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
 - Ryusuke Egawa, Tohoku University, Japan
 - Toshio Endo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
 - Keiichiro Fukazawa, Kyoto University, Japan
 - Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA
 - Jose Gracia, High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany
 - Mary Hall, University of Utah, USA
 - Akihiro Hayashi, Rice University, USA
 - Shoichi Hirasawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
 - Kazuhiko Komatsu, Tohoku University, Japan
 - Atsushi Kubota, Hiroshima City University, Japan
 - Kiyoshi Kumahata, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan
 - Seyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
 - Shirley Moore, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
 - Takeshi Nanri, Kyushu University, Japan
 - Masao Okita, Osaka University, Japan
 - Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan
 - Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
 - Vadim Voevodin, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
 - Cheng Wang, Microsoft, USA