[hpc-announce] CFP: CANOPIE-HPC at SC20: Containers and new orchestration paradigms for isolated environments in HPC

[Priedhorsky, Reid]

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd workshop on CONTAINERS AND NEW ORCHESTRATION PARADIGMS FOR ISOLATED
ENVIRONMENTS IN HPC (CANOPIE-HPC) at Supercomputing 2020

Program chairs:
Reid Priedhorsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sanjana Sudarshan, Indiana University


CANOPIE-HPC is a workshop focusing on containerization, virtualization, and
other methods to implement user-defined, bring-your-own, or isolated software
environments. Submissions will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be
published in IEEE Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC).

  Website:            https://canopie-hpc.org

  Submission opens:   July 9, 2020
  Submission closes:  September 3, 2020
  Decisions:          September 24, 2020
  Camera ready due:   October 8, 2020
  Workshop date:      November 16, 2020

Note: Items are due at 23:59 “anywhere on Earth” on the specified date.
Specifically, this is 23:59 IDLW [1], i.e., UTC–12:00. You can use this
converter [2] to figure out the deadline for your time zone.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9212:00
[2]: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?p1=3399&p2=1440


OVERVIEW

Technologies such as containers and virtual machines enable users to define
and build their own software environments, and then run them on different
resources in a portable, reproducible manner. These new workflows, with users
directly participating in creating and managing environments with tools such
as Vagrant, OpenStack, Docker, Podman, Singularity, Shifter, and Charliecloud,
are a transformational capability. In addition to greater flexibility and
agility for users, other benefits include greater portability and reduced
system administration costs. In particular, they make tractable a much-desired
paradigm shift in software deployment, enabling an HPC application and its
environment to be moved between platforms ranging from development laptops and
desktops to exascale HPC systems.

While adoption is growing, there remain numerous questions regarding best
practices, foundational concepts, tools, and standards. Our goal is to promote
and accelerate the adoption and impact of this new ecosystem to better address
HPC use cases. This workshop serves as a key venue for presenting
late-breaking research, sharing experiences and best practices, and fostering
collaboration in this field. Our second iteration will emphasize real-world
experiences and challenges with such environments.


SCOPE

The scope of this workshop is to better understand and improve user-defined,
bring-your-own, isolated, and related software environments for HPC. The most
well-known approaches are containers and virtualization, but anything to
further these goals is welcome. Topics include but are not limited to:

  - Container runtimes, virtual machines, and related technologies
  - Portability and reproducibility
  - Experience reports, at both applications and systems levels
  - Exascale considerations
  - HPC in the cloud and/or cloud in the HPC
  - Hardware considerations, including GPUs, accelerators, and interconnects
  - Security and trust models
  - Image management, including distribution and archiving as well as
    registries
  - In-situ visualization and/or analysis
  - Debugging
  - Workflows, including interaction between traditional jobs, non-traditional
    jobs, and services; checkpoint/restart; monitoring; and resource
    partitioning
  - Orchestration, resource management, and scheduling
  - Performance and scaling studies
  - New interaction techniques such as web apps (Jupyter, RStudio, etc.) and
    DevOps


WORKSHOP FORMAT

CANOPIE-HPC will follow a relatively traditional format based on several other
previously successful workshops at SC, consisting of approximately four
sessions separated by breaks and lunch. We will have an introduction and
welcoming remarks, technical talks, panels, a keynote, and a brief wrap-up
discussion. The content of technical sessions will be driven by the mix of
accepted submissions. The keynote speaker will be invited from the broader
field of isolated software environments, but not from within HPC, the goal
being to provide interesting lessons from outside HPC.

In the event of a virtual SC20, CANOPIE-HPC will follow remote guidance from
the SC20 organizers, with the goal of simulating an in-person workshop as
closely as practical.


DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVITY

The CANOPIE-HPC organizers embrace diversity and inclusion. We are committed
to equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, age, disability, genetic information, gender identity, sexual
orientation, or status as a parent, among other things. We understand that
today’s workforce is more diverse than ever and that the nation’s best and
brightest represent an endless variety of cultural, geographical, and
educational backgrounds; life experiences; and perspectives. We welcome this
because we recognize that workforce diversity, when fully leveraged, leads to
the inclusion of more ideas and viewpoints, which in turn leads to more
creativity and innovation. When individuals are able to bring their whole
selves to work, they thrive and HPC thrives.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

We enthusiastically welcome original, high-quality submissions within the
scope above. These may describe complete studies; work-in-progress research;
position papers on controversial, emerging, or hot topics; state of the
practice; or any other manuscript the authors believe should be included in
the CANOPIE-HPC program. We encourage submissions from academia, industry,
government, and/or any other type of institution.

Each manuscript will be assessed using peer review by program committee
members (or outside reviewers, if needed) on the basis of scientific validity,
impact to the field, reproducibility, inclusivity, and opportunity for useful
and lively discussion at the workshop. Review will be single-masked; i.e.,
reviewers will know authors’ identities, but not vice versa. Authors should
not anonymize their manuscripts.

In conjunction with the SC Reproducibility Initiative, submissions should be
transparent as possible regarding all methods, and when appropriate, they
should provide reproducibility artifacts such as reproduction instructions,
source code, build recipes, and/or container images. These should be presented
in a manner convenient for readers; e.g., prose instructions might fit well as
an appendix in the submitted PDF, while source code or an image repository
URLs could go in a footnote.

The program committee will discuss the submissions and their reviews and
select the program over a video conference meeting. Submissions will be
assessed as-is, with no expectation of substantive revision after peer review,
though some submissions may be accepted conditional on specified changes
(“shepherded”).

Accepted manuscripts will be published in IEEE TCHPC [1].

Manuscripts should use the IEEE Transactions format; templates [2] are
available for Microsoft Word and LaTeX (though note that the IEEEtran class
comes with most LaTeX installations). Manuscripts must be at least 6 pages in
the IEEE Transactions format, including figures, tables, and references. There
is no maximum, but writing should be concise, and manuscript length must be
commensurate with contribution size.

Submit your manuscript using the SC20 web system:
https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SC20WorkshopCANOPIEHPCSubmission&site=sc20

[1]: https://tc.computer.org/tchpc/
[2]: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html


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