[hpc-announce] CFP: AsHES 2019 Co-located with IPDPS w/ PARCO Special Issue - Final Deadline Extension: Feb 8, 2019

[Si, Min]

The Ninth International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale 
Systems (AsHES)
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2019
May 20th, 2019

With PARCO Special Issue

To be held in conjunction with 33rd IEEE International Parallel and 
Distributed Processing Symposium
Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana, Brazil

Workshop Scope and Goals
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The development of ever larger and more energy-efficient computer 
systems in recent years has led to more and more systems with 
heterogeneous computing units (CPUs, GPUs or FPGAS) and systems with 
heterogeneous storage systems (High Memory Bandwidth). With the rise of 
persistent memory, attached to the PCIe bus or to the memory DIMMs, the 
border between storage and memory becomes more and more fluid. Other 
systems offer different types of compute nodes, so that a group of nodes 
build the accelerator (modular supercomputing). Hierarchical storage 
architectures, for example using burst buffers, try to overcome the IO 
problems. Programming such a system can be a real challenge along with 
locality, scheduling, load balancing, concurrency and so on.

This workshop focuses on understanding the implications of accelerators 
and heterogeneous designs on the hardware systems, porting applications, 
performing compiler optimizations, and developing programming 
environments for current and emerging systems. It seeks to ground 
accelerator research through studies of application kernels or whole 
applications on such systems, as well as tools and libraries and runtime 
systems that improve the performance and productivity of applications on 
these systems.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and 
practitioners who are involved in application studies for accelerators 
and other heterogeneous systems, to learn the opportunities and 
challenges in future design trends for HPC applications and systems.

Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited 
to):

* Strategies for programming heterogeneous systems using high-level 
models such as OpenMP, OpenACC, low-level models such as OpenCL, CUDA;
* Methods and tools to tackle challenges in scientific computing at 
extreme scale;
* Strategies for application behavior characterization and performance 
optimization for accelerators;
* Techniques for optimizing kernels for execution on GPGPU, Intel® Xeon 
Phi™, and future heterogeneous platforms;
* Models of application performance on heterogeneous and accelerated HPC 
systems;
* Compiler Optimizations and tuning heterogeneous systems including 
parallelization, loop transformation, locality optimizations, Vectorization;
* Implications of workload characterization in heterogeneous and 
accelerated architecture design;
* Benchmarking and performance evaluation for accelerators;
* Tools and techniques to address both performance and correctness to 
assist application development for accelerators and heterogeneous 
processors;
* System software techniques to abstract application domain-specific 
functionalities for accelerators;

Important Dates (AoE)
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Paper Submission: Feb. 8, 2019 (AoE)
Paper Notification: Feb. 27, 2019 (AoE)
Camera Ready Paper: Mar. 15, 2019 (AoE)

Proceedings
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The proceedings of this workshop will be published electronically 
together with IPDPS proceedings via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Papers Submission Guidelines
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Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient 
background material to make them accessible to the broader community.

Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column 
pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference 
style), including figures, tables, and references. See the style 
templates for latex or word for details.

Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, 
originality, correctness and clarity.

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ashes19

Journal Special Issue
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The best papers of AsHES 2018 will be invited to a Special Issue on
Topics on Heterogeneous Computing of the Elsevier International Journal
on Parallel Computing (PARCO).

Steering Committee
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Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Jiayuan Meng, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Barbara Chapman, Stony Brook University, USA
Guang R. Gao, University of Delaware, USA
Xinmin Tian, Intel, USA
Michael Wong, Codeplay, UK
James Dinan, Intel Corporation
Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA

General Chair
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Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Program Co-Chairs
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Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Lena Oden, Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany

Program Committee
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Ashwin Aji, AMD, USA
James Beyer, NVIDIA Corporation, USA
Sridutt Bhalachandra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Adrián Castelló, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Huimin Cui, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Khaled Hamidouche, AMD, USA
Jeff Hammond, Intel Corporation, USA
Andreas Herten, Juelich Supercomputing Center, Forschungszentrum 
Juelich, Germany
Kaixi Hou, NVIDIA Corporation, USA
Gabriele Jost, NASA Ames Research Center/Supersmith, USA
Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Germany
Seyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
John Leidel, Texas Tech University, USA
Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee, USA
Naoya Maruyama, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Stephen Olivier, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Guray Ozen, Nvidia/PGI, Germany
Barry L. Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Xiaonan Tian, NVIDIA Corporation, USA
Pedro Valero-Lara, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Questions?
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Please send any queries about the AsHES workshop to ashes at mcs.anl.gov