[hpc-announce] CFP: ExaMPI2017 at SC17

[Grant, Ryan Eric (-EXP)]

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ExaMPI2017 - Workshop on Exascale MPI 2017

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Sunday November 12th, 2017

Denver, CO USA

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

* Paper submission: September 11, 2017
* Acceptance notification: October 2, 2017
* Short papers due: October 2, 2017
* Short paper acceptance notification: October 9, 2017
* Final papers due: October 16, 2017

https://sites.google.com/view/exampi2017/home

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The MPI standard and its implementations have proved surprisingly
scalable. Issues that hampered scalability have been
addressed in the MPI 2.1 ­ 2.2 definition process, and continued into
MPI 3.0 and 3.1. Thus MPI has been robust, and been able to evolve, without
fundamentally changing the model and specification. For this and many
other reasons MPI is currently the de-facto standard for HPC systems
and applications.
However, there is a need for re-examination of the message-passing
model for extreme-scale systems characterized by asymptotically
decreasing local memory and highly localized communication networks.
Likewise, there is a need for exploring new innovative and potentially
disruptive concepts and algorithms partially to explore other roads
than those taken by the recently released MPI 3.1 standard.
The aim of workshop is to bring together developers and researchers to
present and discuss innovative algorithms and concepts in Message
Passing programming models, in particular related to MPI.
This year¹s theme is on concurrency in MPI and underlying networks and
we especially encourage submissions aligned with this theme.

Topics of interest (but are not limited to)

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* Development of scalable Message Passing collective operations.

* Communication topology mapping interfaces and algorithms.

* Innovative algorithms for scheduling/routing to avoid network congestion.

* Integrated use of structured data layout descriptors.

* One-sided communication models and RDMA-based MPI.

* MPI multi-threading and threading requirements from OSes.

* Interoperability of Message Passing and PGAS models.

* Integration of task-parallel models into Message Passing models.

* Fault tolerance in MPI.

* MPI I/O.

Paper submission and publication
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There are two submission categories:

* Regular research paper: submission of full paper. Regular paper
submissions are limited to 10 single-space pages (including figures, tables
and references) using a 10-point on 8.5x11-inch pages (US Letter).
Accepted regular research papers are expected to be published in a journal
special issue. Instructions for preparing regular papers for the journal
will 
be emailed to authors of accepted papers.

* Hot topic abstract: submission of an extended abstract. These submissions
target work-in-progress research on potentially controversial topics in
Message-Passing. Hot topic extended abstracts are limited to 3 single-space
pages: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Accepted
hot topic extended abstracts will be published only on the ExaMPI17
website.

Regular Papers and extended abstracts should be submitted electronically
at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exampi2017


Important dates
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* Paper submission: September 11, 2017
* Acceptance notification: October 2, 2017
* Short papers due: October 2, 2017
* Short paper acceptance notification: October 9, 2017
* Final papers due: October 16, 2017


Workshop Organizers
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Ryan E. Grant 		Sandia National Laboratories
Patrick G. Bridges 	University of New Mexico
Anthony Skjellum 	Auburn University
Purushotham Bangalore 	University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ron Brightwell 		Sandia National Laboratories
Pavan Balaji 		Argonne National Laboratory
Masamichi Takagi 	RIKEN AICS
Geoffroy Vallee		Oak Ridge National Laboratory