[hpc-announce] URGENT CFP: IXPUG Workshop HPC Asia 2018

[taisuke at cs.tsukuba.ac.jp]

                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                   IXPUG Workshop HPC Asia 2018
      http://www.hpcs.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~taisuke/IXPUG-Asia-2018

                       January 31st, 2018 
                     Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan 
                 in Conjunction with HPC Asia 2018 
       (International Conference on HPC in Asia-Pacific Region)

OVERVIEW
 IXPUG Workshop HPC Asia 2018 is an open workshop on high performance
computing application, system and architectural technology on Intel
Xeon Phi many-core processor and coprocessor. IXPUG (Intel Xeon Phi
Users Group) is a user community to share knowledge and experience on
Intel Xeon Phi related computing.
 IXPUG Workshop HPC Asia 2018 is the first IXPUG Workshop in Asian
region, as a part of International Conference HPC Asia 2018 held in
Tokyo, Japan. This is a half day workshop with contributed papers and
key note talks. Any research aspect related to Intel Xeon Phi is
welcome to present to share this advanced technology for high
performance computing.
 About one year has passed after the first Intel Xeon Phi standalone
processor (Knights Landing architecture), and three supercomputers
equipped with this processor ranked in TOP10 supercomputers in the
world to provide several tens PFLOPS performance. The technology to
apply this processor to practical applications are now on the stage of
productive execution from past practical ones. In this IXPUG Workshop
HPC Asia 2018, users of Intel Xeon Phi processors share the knowledge
on how to use, optimize and perform the high end computation for the
state of the art research.

DATE and PLACE
January 31st (Wed) afternoon (Day-3 of HPC Asia 2018)
Akihabara UDX Building, Tokyo, Japan

TOPICS
 Any topics on Intel Xeon Phi processor and coprocessor family
including the following topics, but not limited:
  - Application porting and performance optimization
  - System software and middleware
  - Hardware related issues
Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is
not under consideration for another conference or a journal.

PAPER FORMAT
 Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 10 pages
(full paper) or 4 pages (short paper) in PDF format including figures,
tables and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM
Proceedings Style which can be got in the following page.

http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

IMPORTANT DATE (URGENT!)
- Submission Deadline: December 13th (Wed) 2017 (Hard deadline, no extension)
- Notification of acceptance: December 20th (Wed) 2017
- Camera-Ready Deadline: December 26th (Tue) 2017
- Workshop: January 31st (Wed) 2018

SUBMISSION SITE
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ixpugworkshophpcasia

PUBLICATION
 All accepted papers will be included in ACM Digital Library as a part
of HPC Asia 2018 Workshop Proceedings.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba)
Doug Doerfler (NERSC/LBNL)
Richard Gerber (NERSC/LBNL)
Clay Hughes (SNL)
Juha Jaykka (The University of Cambridge)
David Keyes (KAUST)
Kent Milfeld (TACC)
Hai Ah Nam (LANL)
John Pennycook (Intel)
Thomas Steinke (Zuse Institute Berlin)
Vit Vondrak (VSB - Technical University of Ostrava)

CONTACT
 All questions for workshop paper submission and organization should be
sent by e-mail to ixpug-asia2018 [at] ccs.tsukuba.ac.jp.