[hpc-announce] Extended submission deadline | ISC 2018 Workshop ATCET | Approximate and Transprecision Computing on Emerging Technologies

[Cristiano Malossi]

=== WORKSHOP UPDATES ===
- Paper submission deadline has been extended to May 11th.
- Opening keynote by: Piotr Luszczek, Research Director at the University 
of Tennessee.


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                             CALL FOR PAPERS
                      1st International Workshop on
    Approximate and Transprecision Computing on Emerging Technologies
                                ATCET 2018
                         http://oprecomp.eu/atcet
                       at ISC High Performance 2018
                    Frankfurt, Germany, June 28, 2018

                   Opening keynote by: Piotr Luszczek, 
            Research Director at the University of Tennessee
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Guaranteed numerical precision of each elementary step in a complex 
computation has been the mainstay of traditional computing systems for 
many years. This era is at its twilight: to overcome the “power wall” 
in Exascale systems, a shift from traditional computing paradigms is now 
mandatory.
 
The ATCET workshop brings together experts from many fields to discuss 
and explore the potential of approximation in hardware and software, 
from both a statistical and a deterministic viewpoint. Transprecision 
computing represents the paradigm shift to break the current performance 
and energy-efficiency barriers of systems at all scales, from sensors 
to supercomputers.

=== Topics of interest ===
Topics on approximate and transprecision computing addressed in the 
workshop include (and are not limited to):
 
- Formal and mathematical methods and algorithms
- Error resilient methods and algorithms
- Emulation, metrics, modeling, and benchmarking
- Compiler and system software support
- Emerging Technologies: hardware, processor, memory, and storage
- Applications in HPC, Scientific Computing, Big Data, and Deep Learning

=== Program ===
The workshop will be held from 9:00 to 13:00.

The format consists of an opening Keynote by Piotr Luszczek, Research 
Director 
at the University of Tennessee, and a series of contributed talks.

=== Important dates ===
Papers Due (EXTENDED):    May   11, 2018
Author Notification:      May   18, 2018
Camera-Ready Submission:  June  22, 2018
Workshop:                 June  28, 2018
 
Please submit papers using EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atcet2018
 
For more information, please visit:
http://oprecomp.eu/atcet

=== Submission Guidelines ===
- Accepted workshop papers will be published in a special edition of 
"Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)".
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs
- Author guidelines are available from Springer:
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

- Latex template:
ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip
- Word template:
http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1124637/application/zip/CSProceedings_AuthorTools_Word_2003.zip
- We accept papers with no more than eight pages in single-column layout.
- The only language accepted is English.
- Questions can be sent to acm at zurich.ibm.com
- Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.
- By submitting a paper you agree to present the paper at ATCET in
 Frankfurt, Germany.
- At least one author has to register for ISC High Performance Workshop
 participation.

=== Special Issue ===
Authors of best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of 
the paper in a journal to be determined.

=== Organizing Committee ===
- Cristiano Malossi, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
- Luca Benini, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Enrique S. Quintana Ortí, University Jaume I, Spain
- Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK
- Costas Bekas, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland