[hpc-announce] 6th Workshop on EXTREME-SCALE PROGRAMMING TOOLS (ESPT) at SC17 (Deadline: 10/1)

[Allen D. Malony]

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

         6th Workshop on EXTREME-SCALE PROGRAMMING TOOLS (ESPT)

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

                            Denver, CO, USA
                    Sunday, November 12, 9am-5:30pm

           http://www.vi-hps.org/symposia/espt/espt-sc17.html

Supported by Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS)

                NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2017
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The path to exascale computing will challenge HPC application developers
in their quest to achieve the maximum potential that the machines have
to offer.  Factors such as limited power budgets, clock frequency
variability, heterogeneous load imbalance, hierarchical memories, and
shrinking I/O bandwidths will make it increasingly difficult to create
high-performance applications.  Tools for debugging, performance
measurement and analysis, and tuning will be needed to overcome the
architectural, system, and programming complexities envisioned in
exascale environments.  At the same time, research and development
progress for HPC tools faces equally difficult challenges from exascale
factors.  Increased emphasis on autotuning, dynamic monitoring and
adaptation, heterogeneous analysis, and so on will require new
methodologies, techniques, and engagement with application teams.  This
workshop will serve as a forum for HPC application developers, system
designers, and tools researchers to discuss the requirements for
exascale-enabled tools and the roadblocks that need to be addressed.
The workshop is the sixth in a series of successful SC conference
workshops organized by the Virtual Institute - High Productivity
Supercomputing (VI-HPS), an international initiative of HPC researchers
and developers focused on parallel programming and performance tools for
large-scale systems.

The workshop is the sixth in a series of SC conference workshops
organized by the Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing
(VI-HPS), an international initiative of HPC researchers and developers
focused on parallel programming and performance tools for large-scale
systems.

Workshop Format and Topics:

The full-day workshop will consist of a keynote address in the morning
followed by research paper presentations.  A possible second keynote
address will take place to start the afternoon, followed again by research
paper presentations.  A panel will close the workshop, including time for
feedback from the ESPT participants.

The workshop topics of interest include:

* Programming tools (e.g., performance analysis, tuning, debuggers, IDEs)
* Methodologies for performance engineering
* Tool technologies for extreme-scale challenges (e.g., scalability, resilience, power)
* Tool infrastructures and environments
* Evolving/future application requirements for programming tools and technologies
* Application developer experiences with programming and performance tools

Paper Submission:

Papers covering original and previously unpublished research are
solicited.  Each paper submission will undergo a peer review process.
The ESPT workshop proceedings will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.  Thus, to be
considered, a manuscript should be a maximum of 15 pages (plus 1 extra
page for additional references) and formatted according to author
guidelines found at:

  http://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

This website provides LaTeX2e and Microsoft Word templates.

All papers must be submitted through Easychair at:

  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=espt2017

Note, the LNCS publication of accepted papers will occur after the ESPT
workshop.  Final versions of the papers will be due in December.  This will
give the authors the opportunity to update their paper based on workshop
discussions.

Important Dates:

  October 1, 2017 (AOE) : Paper submissions due
  October 23, 2017      : Author notification
  November 12, 2017     : ESPT Workshop, 9:00 - 17:30, Sunday
  December 18, 2017     : Final version of papers due

Workshop Organizers:

  William Jalby, University of Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Chair
  Allen D. Malony, University of Oregon
  Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  Judit Gimenez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Contact:

  Allen D. Malony, University of Oregon
  Phone +1-541-346-4407
  Email (preferred): malony at cs.uoregon.edu

Program Committee:

Jean-Baptiste Besnard, ParaTools, SAS
Michael Gerndt, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Judit Gimenez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Kevin Huck, University of Oregon
William Jalby, University of Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France (workshop chair)
Andreas Knuepfer, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany
Allen D. Malony, University of Oregon, US (co-organizer)
Heike McCraw, University of Tennessee, US
Barton P. Miller, University of Wisconsion, Madison, US
Pablo Oliveira, University of Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US (co-organizer)
Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, US
Jan Treibig, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Felix Wolf, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
Brian Wylie, Juelich Supercomputing Centre