[hpc-announce] ISPASS Call for Posters and Announcement of Student Travel Grant

[Lee, Angelina]

2020 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems
and Software
April 5-7, 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
https://www.ispass.org/ispass2020/

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The IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems
and Software (ISPASS) provides a forum for sharing advanced academic
and industrial research work focused on performance analysis in the
design of computer systems and software. ISPASS 2020 will be held
April 5 through 7, 2020 in Boston, MA. Authors are invited to submit
ongoing or late breaking research, tools or benchmarks extended poster
abstracts in any of the following fields:

  *   Performance and power evaluation methodologies
     *   Analytical modeling
     *   Statistical approaches
     *   Tracing and profiling tools
     *   Simulation techniques
     *   Hardware (e.g., FPGA) accelerated simulation
     *   Hardware performance counter architectures
     *   Power, temperature, variability and/or reliability models for
computer systems
     *   Microbenchmark-based hardware analysis techniques

  *   Foundations of performance and power analysis
     *   Metrics
     *   Bottleneck identification and analysis
     *   Visualization

  *   Power and performance analysis of commercial and experimental hardware
     *   Multithreaded, multicore and many-core architectures
     *   Accelerators and graphics processing units
     *   Memory systems, including storage-class memory
     *   Embedded and mobile systems
     *   Enterprise systems and data centers
     *   Supercomputers
     *   Computer networks

  *   Power and performance analysis of emerging workloads and software
     *   Software written in managed languages
     *   Virtualization and consolidation workloads
     *   Internet-sector workloads
     *   Embedded, multimedia, games, telepresence
     *   Deep learning and convolutional neural networks

  *   Application and system code tuning and optimization

  *   Confirmations or refutations of important prior results

In addition to ongoing or late breaking research, the conference is an
ideal forum to publicize new tools and benchmarks to the community.
These extended poster abstracts, which can detail tools and benchmarks
in any of the above fields of interest, will be judged primarily on
their potential impact and use rather than on their research
contribution.  See http://www.ispass.org> for submission details.


IMPORTANT DATES

  *   Extended poster abstract submission: January 31, 2020
  *   Notification: February 7, 2020
  *   Conference: April 5-7, 2020

Submission instructions
ISPASS 2020 extended poster abstract submission website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispass2020posters
Please make sure that your submission satisfies all the requirements
listed below.

  *   The extended poster abstract must be original material that has
not been previously published in another conference or journal, nor is
currently under review by another conference or journal. Note that you
may submit material presented previously at a workshop without
copyrighted proceedings.
  *   The content of the submission is limited to two (2) 8.5"x11"
single-spaced double-column pages using 10 pt or larger font,
excluding references. Submissions that exceed the length limit or
deviate from the formatting requirements may be rejected without
review.
  *   References must list all authors for any reference with fewer
than 10 co-authors. Complete author lists facilitate the review
process.
  *   Submissions must be anonymous. Please do not omit references to
provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the
context.  Instead, if you reference your own work, do it in third
person, as if you were referencing someone else's research.
  *   Your submission must be formatted in such a way that it is clear
to understand (including plots and diagrams) with a black-and-white
print-out.
  *   The extended poster abstract must be submitted in PDF format. We
cannot accept any other format, and we must be able to print the
document just as we receive it.
  *   We strongly suggest that you use only the four widely-used
printer fonts: Times, Helvetica, Courier, and Symbol.
  *   You may use IEEE Conference templates
      http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
      as long you use the conference version of the template and
follow the formatting requirements above.

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ISPASS 2020 is now offering travel support to encourage student
participation at the conference. Applications and the grant amount
will be decided on a case-by-case basis (i.e., funding is NOT
guaranteed). All undergraduate and graduate students interested in
learning and sharing the research in system software performance
analysis are welcome to apply. Students do not need to be
authors/presenters on an accepted paper at ISPASS to qualify for the
student travel grant award.

You are highly encouraged to apply if you fall into any of the
following categories; applications in these categories will be
prioritized:

    - Junior and senior undergraduate students who are interested in
pursuing research in the area of performance analysis of computer
systems and software. If you have previous research experience (e.g.,
via REU programs, independent studies, or supervised projects) in the
relevant area, please mention in the application package (see detailed
application instructions below). Make sure to include how attending
ISPASS will enrich your technical knowledge and benefit you
professionally.

    - Students from small institutions and universities that do not
have a strong tradition in the ISPASS research domain.

    - US citizens/permanent residents.

    - Attendees who belong to underrepresented groups (including women).

    - Students presenting their research at ISPASS.

    - Students who do not have access to financial support from other sources.

The deadline for submitting travel funding applications is Feb 20th
(11:59:59pm AOE). Please send them by email to the Student Travel
Grant Chair: Devesh Tiwari (d.tiwari at northeastern.edu). Use the
subject line "ISPASS 2019 Student Travel Grant Application" and submit
the full application as a single PDF file.

The travel grant application should include:

    - The name of the student, the student's institution; US
citizenship or residency information; membership in an
underrepresented group if applicable.

    - An itemized estimate of conference-related expenses.

    - Information about other sources of funding, if available.

    - A cover letter stating the reason for attending ISPASS and a
description of research interests.

    - A resume (including IEEE and/or ACM student membership numbers
if available).

    - A one-page statement from the student's advisor confirming the
student's eligibility and recommending the student to attend ISPASS.
This is required for all graduate student applicants. Undergraduate
students are highly encouraged to include a support letter from their
undergraduate research/curriculum adviser. Please make your adviser
aware that a support letter including other helpful information,
besides confirming the student's eligibility and recommendation for
participation, is welcome. Such information may include the
availability of partial financial support from other funding sources,
historical underrepresentation of the Institute at ISPASS, if the
student belongs to an underrepresented group, and other potential
broader impact of the student's participation at ISPASS. If your
adviser prefers to email the letter, please ensure that the letter is
received by the Student Travel Grant Chair: Devesh Tiwari
(d.tiwari at northeastern.edu) by the application deadline.

Students with disabilities or those attending with a child under one
year of age may request additional funds to support a travel companion
in their application.

Important notes: Student travel support applications with an incorrect
subject line, past the deadline, missing details, missing adviser's
support statement are automatically considered ineligible for the
award. Please note that the one-page support letter from the student's
advisor needs to be included in the application form or be emailed by
the application deadline - no further extensions will be provided.

By applying to this award, you implicitly accept the following
responsibilities and expectations, in the case you are awarded the
student travel grant.

- Awardees must save original receipts and mail them in or present
them at the conference to verify their expenditures.

- Each awardee is required to prepare and email a small essay (approx.
two pages) to the Student Travel Grant Chair: Devesh Tiwari
(d.tiwari at northeastern.edu) by April 15th describing his/her
experience at ISPASS and learnings. The essay can include both text
and graphic illustrations. These essays, with light editorial input as
needed, will be published as a highlight blog-post on the conference
website.

- Expenses will be reimbursed after the conference.

- Awardees from U.S. schools must fly with U.S-based carriers for
airfare reimbursement.

- If selected, you will be notified via email by March 5, 2020.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Student
Travel Grant Chair: Devesh Tiwari (d.tiwari at northeastern.edu).