[hpc-announce] ExaMPI 2017 Deadline Extension

[Grant, Ryan Eric (-EXP)]

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ExaMPI2017 - Workshop on Exascale MPI 2017 - Deadline Extension

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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: October 6th, 2017 23:59 AOE (extended)
* Acceptance notification: October 27th, 2017
* Short papers due: October 6th, 2017 23:59 AOE
* Short paper acceptance notification: October 27th, 2017
* Final papers due: November 8th, 2017

All accepted full length papers will be published in Concurrency 
and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE) Journal by Wiley

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 year’s 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: 
Regular paper submissions are limited to 20 pages (including figures, tables 
and references).

Templates can be found at:
http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2017.html#EXAMPI2017 under the guidelines link. 

Accepted regular research papers will be published in the Concurrency and Computation: 
Practice and Experience (CCPE) Journal by Wiley.

Full research papers should be submitted using the CCPE manuscript central site at:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cpe using the EXAMPI2017 special issue title in 
step 4 of the submission process. The paper must also be categorized as a special 
issue paper in step 1 as well.

* 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.

Extended abstracts should be submitted electronically at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exampi2017


Important dates
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* Paper submission: October 6th, 2017
* Acceptance notification: October 27th, 2017
* Short papers due: October 6th, 2017
* Short paper acceptance notification: October 27th, 2017
* Final papers due: November 8th, 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