[hpc-announce] CALL FOR PAPERS Supercomputing Asia 2018 (SCA18).

[Rio Yokota]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Supercomputing Asia 2018 (SCA18).
Sentosa, Singapore, March 26-29, 2018
https://sc-asia.org
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Papers Submission: December 09, 2017
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• Important Dates
2017/12/02: Abstract submissions due
2017/12/09: Paper submissions due
2018/02/05: Notification of Acceptance
2018/02/12: Camera-ready papers due

• Scope
As the share of Supercomputers in Asia continues to increase, the relevance of Supercomputing in Asia has achieved a critical mass to merit the inauguration of a Supercomputing conference for Asia. Supercomputing Asia (SCA) 2018 will encompass an umbrella of notable supercomputing events with the key objective of promoting a vibrant and relevant HPC ecosystem in Asian countries, and will be held from 26 to 29 March 2018 at Resorts World Convention Centre, Singapore. The technical program of SCA18 has its roots in Supercomputing Frontiers (SCF), which is Singapore’s annual international HPC conference inaugurated in 2015 by A*CRC, and now hosted by NSCC Singapore. SCF17 was attended by over 450 delegates from over 12 different countries. Riding on the success from the previous year, Supercomputing Frontiers will be rebranded as Supercomputing Frontiers Asia (SCFA), which serves as the technical program for SCA18. The technical program for SCA18 consists of four tracks; “Application, Algorithms & Libraries”, “Programming & System Software”, “Data, Storage & Visualization”, and “Architecture, Network/Communications & Management”.

• Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Application, Algorithms & Libraries
 Bioinformatics and computational biology
 Climate, weather, and earth sciences
 Materials science and chemistry
 Scalable numerical methods
 Fault-tolerant algorithms
 Energy-efficient algorithms
 Domain-specific, languages, libraries or frameworks
 Sustainable software development

- Programming & System Software
 Compiler analysis and optimization
 Runtime systems
 Parallel programming languages
 Tools for parallel program development
 Resource and job management
 HPC system software/operating systems
 Energy-efficient middleware

- Data, Storage & Visualization
 Scalable structured storage
 Next-generation storage systems
 Data intensive computing
 Visualization tools for Big Data
 Middleware for Big Data management
 Reliability and fault tolerance in storage
 Big data application studies

- Architecture, Network/Communications & Management
 Novel memory architectures
 Embedded and reconfigurable architectures
 Scalable system architectures
 Energy-efficient architectures
 Interconnect technologies
 Fault tolerant networks
 Architecture for converged HPC/Big Data
 Administration, monitoring and maintenance tools

• Paper Submission
Submission can be made through Springer’s online submission system (https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/SCA2018). All submissions must follow Springer's LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors) without changing default margins, fonts, etc. The total page limit is 18 pages excluding references. Supplementary materials that facilitate verification of the results, e.g., source code, proof details, etc., may be appended without a page limit or uploaded as separate files, but reviewers are neither required to read them nor will they be printed in the proceedings. Hence submissions must be complete, intelligible and self-contained within the 18 pages bound. Papers should have page numbers to facilitate their review. In LaTeX, this can be achieved for instance using \pagestyle{plain}. Each submission must be a single PDF file. Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. It should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend SCA18 to present the paper.

• Proceedings
The conference proceedings will be published in Springer Nature’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The camera-ready versions need to be submitted via Springer Nature’s Online Conference Service (OCS) system. The link to the submission site is:
https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/SCA2018
Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications.

• Steering Committee
Michael Barber (Australia)
He Bingsheng (Singapore)
Brendan Dalton (Australia)
Tom De Fanti (US)
Qian Depei (China)
Thom Dunning (US)
Fu Haohuan (China)
Terence Hung (Singapore)
David Kahaner (US)
Dieter Kranzlmueller (Germany)
Jysoo Lee (Saudi Arabia)
Yannick Legre (Netherlands)
FangPang Lin (Taiwan)
Simon Lin (Taiwan)
Joe Mambretti (US)
Satoshi Matsuoka (Japan)
Marek Michalewicz (Poland)
Simon See (Singapore)
Satoshi Sekiguchi (Japan)
Shinji Shimojo (Japan)
Putchong Uthayopas (Thailand)
Tan Tin Wee (Singapore)
Deng Yuefan (US)
Lu Yutong (China)

• Program Committee
- Application, Algorithms & Libraries
Emmanuel Agullo (INRIA)
Ariful Azad (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Costas Bekas (IBM)
Aparna Chandramowlishwaran (University of California Irvine)
Kate Clark (NVIDIA)
Hal Finkel (Argonne National Laboratory)
Michael Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories)
Johannes Langguth (Simula)
Piotr R Luszczek (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
Maciej Malawski (AGH University of Science and Technology)
John Owens (UC Davis)
Vivek Pallipuram (University of the Pacific)
Antonio Pena (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
Min Si (Argonne National Laboratory)
Hari Sundar (University of Utah)
Nathan Tallent (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)


- Programming & System Software
Olivier Aumage (INRIA)
Sunita Chandrasekaran (University of Delaware)
Florina M. Ciorba (University of Basel)
Bilel Hadri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (University of Illinois)
Hatem Ltaief (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Arthur Maccabe (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Naoya Maruyama (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Ronald Minnich (Google Inc.)
Raymond Namyst (University of Bordeaux)
CJ Newburn (NVIDIA)
Christian Perez (INRIA)
Miquel Pericas (Chalmers University of Technology)
Mohamed Wahib (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)


- Data, Storage & Visualization
Janine Bennett (Sandia National Laboratories)
Mahdi Bohlouli (University of Koblenz)
Steffen Frey (University of Stuttgart)
Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Hideyuki Kawashima (University of Tsukuba)
Quincey Koziol (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Suzanne McIntosh (New York University)
Bogdan Nicolae (Huawei Technologies)
David Pugmire (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Shinji Sumimoto (Fujitsu)
Bronis R. de Supinski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Daniela Ushizima (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Jon Woodring (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Amelie Chi Zhou (INRIA)


- Architecture, Network/Communications & Management
David Abramson (The University of Queensland)
Eishi Arima (The University of Tokyo)
Ali R. Butt (Virginia Tech)
Nikhil Jain (University of Illinois)
John Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
John Shalf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Ryota Shioya (Nagoya University)
Jeremiah J. Wilke (Sandia National Laboratories)
Weikuan Yu (Florida State University)

• Contact
Email Contact: papers at sc-asia.org

• SCFA18 Technical Paper Co-Chairs
Rio Yokota (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Weigang Wu (Sun Yat-sen University)