[hpc-announce] CFP LHAM20: 7th International Workshop on Large-scale HPC Application Modernization, Naha, Japan, Nov. 24-27, 2020

[Takeshi Nanri]

  (Abstract deadline postponed to Aug 31, 2020, due to the change to 
Online Workshop.)
LHAM 2020: The 7th International Workshop on Large-scale HPC Application 
Modernization,
November 24-27, 2020,  Online, to be held in conjunction with CANDAR.

Workshop website:
https://is-candar.org/lham20

===== Important dates =====
  * Workshop abstract submission due: August 31, 2020
  * Workshop paper submission due: September 4, 2020
  * Workshop author notification: October 5, 2020
  * Final camera-ready paper submission due: October 23, 2020

See more details at: http://is-candar.org/schedule

In HPC software development, a high priority is given to
performance. Many application developers usually adapt their
application programs for a particular system to fully exploit the
potential of the system with system-specific optimizations. Whenever
their target system is updated to an emerging system, they are
required to evolve the application programs to maximize the
performance on the new generation system. This is so-called HPC
application modernization. The modernization cost increases with the
hardware complexity of target systems, and moreover, future HPC
systems are expected to be extremely massive and heterogeneous.
Therefore, software evolution will require more efforts and will be
essential for scaling up the performance in the upcoming extreme-scale
computing era.

The goal of this workshop is to share practices and experiences on
software evolution such as modernizing applications on the
latest HPC systems, and also discuss coming and developing
technologies and research directions to improve the performance and
productivity of applications on emerging systems. In particular, we
will focus on the following topics of interest, but not limited to:

  - Programming models, languages and frameworks for facilitating HPC
    software evolution and refactoring.

  - Algorithms and implementation methodologies for future-generation
    computing systems, including manycores and accelerators (GPUs, Xeon
    Phi, etc).

  - Automatic performance tuning techniques, runtime systems and
    domain-specific languages for hiding the complexity of underlying
    system architectures.

  - Practices and experiences on porting of HPC applications and libraries.

The LHAM is to be held in conjunction with CANDAR'20
http://is-candar.org/

===== Paper format =====
  - Regular paper: 5-7 pages
  - Poster paper: 3-4 pages

===== Submission Instruction =====
Please see Workshop Paper Submission Instruction.
http://is-candar.org/workshop_submission

===== Publication =====
The conference and workshop proceedings will be published by
Conference Publishing Service

http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/

and submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL digital libraries. Also they are
submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI,
and other indexing services.

===== Special Issue =====
We plan to publish extended versions of selected papers in IEICE
Transactions on Information and Systems
(http://search.ieice.org/bin/index.php?category=D&lang=E&curr=1) and
in International Journal of Networking and Computing
(http://ijnc.org/). Please see the following URL
http://is-candar.org/special_issue for the details.

===== Organizers =====

==== Workshop Chair: ====

  - Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan

==== Program Chair: ====

  - Takeshi Nanri, Kyushu University, Japan

==== Advisory Committee: ====

  - Wen-mei Hwu, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  - Chisachi Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  - Michael Resch, The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany

==== Program Committee: ====

  - Ritu Arora, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA
  - Michael Bader, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  - Carlo Bertolli, IBM, USA
  - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA
  - Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  - Ryusuke Egawa, Tohoku University, JAPAN
  - Toshio Endo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN
  - Keiichiro Fukazawa, Kyoto University, JAPAN
  - Jing Gong, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  - Jose Gracia, High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany
  - Fumihiko Ino, Osaka University, JAPAN
  - Kazuhiko Komatsu, Tohoku University, JAPAN
  - Atsushi Kubota, Hiroshima City University, JAPAN
  - Kiyoshi Kumahata, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational 
Science, JAPAN
  - Seyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
  - Shirley Moore, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
  - Satoshi Ohshima, Nagoya University, JAPAN
  - Masao Okita, Osaka University, JAPAN
  - Kamil Rocki, IBM, USA
  - Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN
  - Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, JAPAN
  - Toshiya Takami, Oita University, JAPAN
  - Pedro Valero-Lara, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
  - Vadim Voevodin, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
  - Cheng Wang, Microsoft, USA

Please send any inquiry to the Program Chair of LHAM:
   Takeshi Nanri, Kyushu University, Japan
nanri.takeshi.995 at m.kyushu-u.ac.jp