[hpc-announce] [CFP Updated and Extended] SC20 – 3rd (virtual) Workshop on Interoperability of Supercomputing and Cloud Technologies

[David Hancock]

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SuperCompCloud 2020: 3rd Workshop on Interoperability of Supercomputing
and Cloud Technologies
https://sites.google.com/view/supercompcloud

To be held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2020
(https://sc20.supercomputing.org)
November 11, 2020 - 10:00 AM-2:00 PM (Eastern time)
via the SC20 virtual platform

NOTE: Paper submissions have been extended to August 21, 2020
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This workshop aims at bringing together a group of experts and
practitioners from academia, national laboratories, and industry to
discuss technologies, use cases and best practices in order to set a
vision and direction for leveraging high performance, extreme-scale
computing and on-demand cloud ecosystems. Topics of interest include
tools and technologies enabling scientists for adopting scientific
applications to cloud interfaces, interoperability of HPC and cloud
resource management and scheduling systems, cloud and HPC storage
convergence to allow a high degree of flexibility for users and
community platform developers, continuous integration/deployment
approaches, reproducibility of scientific workflows in distributed
environment, and best practices for enabling X-as-a-Service model at
scale while maintaining a range of security constraints.

This workshop will cover topics related to interoperability of
supercomputing and cloud computing, networking and storage technologies
that are being leveraged by use cases and research infrastructure
providers with a goal to improve productivity and reproducibility of
extreme-scale scientific workflows.

TOPICS
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   *    Virtualization for HPC e.g. virtual machines, containers, etc.
   *    Storage systems for HPC and cloud technologies
   *    On-demand and interactivity with performance, scaling and cost
     efficiencies
   *    Resource management and scheduling systems for HPC and cloud
     technologies
   *    Software defined infrastructure for high-end computing, storage
     and networking
   *    Application environment, integration and deployment technologies
   *    Secure, high-speed networking for integrated HPC and cloud ecosystems
   *    Extreme data and compute workflows and use cases
   *    Research infrastructure deployment use cases
   *    Resiliency and reproducibility of complex and distributed workflows
   *    Isolation and security within shared HPC environments
   *    X-as-a-Service technologies with performance and scalability
   *    Workflow orchestration using public cloud and HPC data centre
     resources
   *    Authentication, authorization and accounting interoperability for
     HPC and cloud ecosystems
   *    Workforce development for integrated HPC and cloud environments

IMPORTANT DATES
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Technical Paper Submission Deadline: 11:59 PM GMT, August 21, 2020
Author Notification: September 18, 2020
Camera-ready Deadline: 11:59 PM GMT, October 12, 2020
Workshop Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 10:00AM-2:00PM (Eastern time)

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
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Submissions will be done through the SC submission site (powered by
Linklings):https://submissions.supercomputing.org

All submissions must be in English and should not exceed 6 pages using
the IEEE conference format (double column, 10pt font). Submissions must
be made as a single PDF file formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter)
which includes all figures and references. Papers should not be
submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. For more
details:https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

The submitted papers will go through a peer-review process and will be
evaluated according to four main criteria: the relevance of the work,
its technical soundness, its originality/novelty and the quality of the
presentation. The workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE
TCHPC and included in the the IEEE Xplore digital library.

At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a
participant of the workshop and present the paper at the workshop, in
order to have the paper published in the proceedings.

ORGANIZATION
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Organizing Committee (supercompcloud at googlegroups.com)

   * Sadaf Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Center (alam at cscs.ch)
   * François Tessier, Swiss National Supercomputing Center
     (ftessier at cscs.ch)
   * David Y. Hancock, Indiana University (dyhancoc at iu.edu)
   * Winnona G. Snapp-Childs, Indiana University
   * John M. Lowe, Indiana University

Program Committee (confirmed so far)

   * Jacob Anders, CSIRO, Autralia
   * Gabriel Antoniu, Inria, France
   * Blair Bethwaite, NZ eScience Infrastructure, New Zealand
   * Evan Bollig, Amazon Web Services, USA
   * Bruce D'Amora, IBM Research, USA
   * Jeremy Fischer, Indiana University, USA
   * Thorsten Hater, Forschungzentrum Juelich, Germany
   * Steve Quenette, Monash University, Australia
   * Timothy Randles, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
   * Pierre Riteau, StackHPC, UK
   * Kento Sato, Riken, Japan
   * Mallikarjun (Arjun) Shankar, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA

Thanks,
The SuperCompCloud Organizing Committee.