[hpc-announce] IEEE HiPC 2018: Conference program and important dates

[Anand Panangadan]

25th IEEE International Conference on
High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018)
December 17-20, 2018
Radisson Blu Hotel
Bengaluru, India
http://www.hipc.org

IMPORTANT DATES
https://hipc.org/news-updates/

- Student Research Symposium (SRS) submission deadline extended to
September 30
- Author Resources with links to CPS author kit to be posted by October 1
- Camera ready deadlines extended for HiPC (October 15) and HiPC Workshops
(October 29)
- Author registration deadlines for HiPC and HiPC Workshops extended to
October 31
- Student Travel Support - application deadline (November 14) and
notification (November 19)
- Radisson Blu special HiPC rates guaranteed for reservations by November 20
- Advance Registration deadline - November 21
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM & EVENTS

HiPC 2018 is the 25th edition of the IEEE Conference on High Performance
Computing, Data, and Analytics. It serves as a forum to present current
work by top researchers in the field and to highlight the activities in
Asia in the area of high performance computing and related scientific,
engineering, and commercial applications. To mark 25 years of HiPC, a
special lecture and several celebratory events are planned. The conference
technical program held on days 2, 3 and 4 will showcase three keynote
speakers and three days of single track presentations of 33 peer reviewed
papers from all over the world. Tutorials to be held on December 16 will be
announced shortly.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Secure High-Performance Computer Architectures: Challenges and Opportunities
- Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
High-Performance Computing at the end of Moore’s Law

PLENARY PANEL
- Data Centers in India: Challenges and Opportunities:
This session will include senior Government officials in India that are
seeking to invite Cloud service providers to open Data centers in India and
discuss available opportunities. Cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft,
Google, IBM, and others) will discuss some of the challenges they face with
respect to regulation, guaranteed cheap electricity supply, skills, etc.
The goal is to get broader discussion on important policy issues that help
enable or cripple development of Warehouse scale Data centers in India.

WORKSHOPS
Six workshops to be held on the first day of the conference are planned.
https://hipc.org/workshops/
- Fourth Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Parallel Fast Fourier Transforms (PFFT) - see September 30 deadline
- Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB)
- First Workshop on the Convergence of High Performance Computing and
Artificial Intelligence (HPC&AI)
- Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing (WDHPC)
- Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHiPC)
(Posters only: Submission deadline November 9)

STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
SRS is aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing
an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The
symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in
HPC in academia and industry and will feature student posters and provide
students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry
exhibits, and demos. Submission deadline is September 30.
https://hipc.org/student-research-symposium/
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INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION
The conference encourages industry participation in the main technical
program and workshops, as well as the Industry, Research and User Symposium
(IRUS) and vendor exhibition held on days 2 and 3. Various sponsorship
opportunities are available as described at the conference website.
Titanium and Platinum sponsors are also provided a forum to drive Industry
BOF sessions.
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General Co-Chairs:
Chiranjib Sur, Shell, India and Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA
Program Chair, HPC: Olivier Beaumont, Inria, France
Program Chair, Data Science: Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA
Steering Chair: Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
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SPONSORSHIP

HiPC is co-sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
and the HiPC Trust, India

In cooperation with
ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT)
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH)
IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems
Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT)
National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

Industry sponsors & partners include: Microsoft, Intel, NetApp, Google, and
Boston. Visit the HiPC website to see full listing of all industry partners
and exhibitors.
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