[hpc-announce] [Deadline Extended] CfP: BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'20)

[Felix Wolf]

CALL FOR PAPERS

New Deadlines
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Registration of abstract (non-mandatory): July 15, 2020
Paper Submission: August 15, 2020
Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2020

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2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and
Optimizing (Bench'20)
http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench20/index.html

Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Introduction
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Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental human
activities. The organizing committee is pleased to invite you to take
part in Bench'20 to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This symposium
(Bench'20) is organized by the International Open Benchmarking Council
(BenchCouncil). Bench'20 overlaps with SC 20 (same place and same time),
but it is NOT affiliated with the SC conference. The main themes of
Bench'20 are benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing systems and
applications in the areas of big data, AI, block chain, HPC,
datacenters, IoT, and edge computing.

The Bench conference has three defining characteristics. First, it
provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and
discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the
benchmark community as a whole. Second, it is a multi-disciplinary
conference. The past conferences attracted the researchers and
practitioners from the architecture, systems, algorithms, and
applications communities. Third, it includes both invited sessions and
contributed sessions.

Regularly, Bench'20 will present the BenchCouncil Achievement Award
($3000), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1000), and the
BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1000).

As its duty, BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and
further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the
benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we
present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research
to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Each winning
paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each
category of poster, spotlight, and oral.


Call for papers
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Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following.
**Synthetics or real-world data sets of:
**Benchmark, measurement, and optimization of:
**Benchmark specifications and open-source implementation reports of:
** Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms, and tools in
benchmarking, measurement, and optimization for:
** Benchmark-driven domain-specific co-design of:
** Test methodologies and systems of:
** Workload characterization of:
-Big data
-AI
-HPC
-Machine learning
-Big scientific data
-Datacenters
-Cloud
-Warehouse-scale computing
-Mobile robotics
-Edge and fog computing
-IoT
-Block chain
-Data management and storage
-Medicine, finance and education


Paper Submission
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Papers must be submitted in PDF. For a full paper, the page limit is 15
pages in
the LNCS format, not including references. For a short paper, the page
limit is 8 pages in LNCS format, not including references. The
submissions will be
judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. After the
conference, the proceeding will be published by Springer LNCS (Indexed
by EI). Please note that the LNCS format is the final one for publishing.

After the acceptance decisions are made, the presentation mode of each
paper is determined based on the recommendations as poster, spotlight,
or oral. All accepted papers, regardless of presentation mode, appear in
the proceedings as full-length papers.

At least one author must pre-register for the symposium, and at least
one author must attend the symposium to present the paper. Papers for
which no author is preregistered will be removed from the proceedings.

Submission site:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bench20#


Important Dates
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Registration of abstract (non-mandatory): July 15, 2020
Paper Submission: August 15, 2020
Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2020


Awards
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At Bench'20, several important awards will be given, which include:

* BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3,000)
- This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term
contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is
eligible for the status of a BenchCouncil Fellow.

* BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1,000)
- This award recognizes a junior member who demonstrates outstanding
potential for research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and
optimizing.

* BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1,000)
- This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences,
which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in
benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing.

* BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research (Each
winning paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers
for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral)
- BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and further
encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from
BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we present the
BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the
papers using all publicly available benchmarks.


Organization
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General Chairs
Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences)

TPC Chairs
Felix Wolf (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Award Committees
Lizy Kurian John (The University of Texas at Austin)
D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University)
Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University)
Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Submission Chair
Rui Ren (Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd.)

Publicity Chairs
Ali Jannesari (Iowa State University)
Akihiro Nomura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Chen Zheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)
Zhen Jia (Amazon)
Biwei Xie (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences)


Technical Program Committee
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Matthew Bachstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Woongki Baek, UNIST
David Bermbach, TU Berlin
Arne Berre, SINTEF
Ben Blamey, Uppsala University
K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University
Florina Ciorba, University of Basel
Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University
Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster
Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories
Cheol-Ho Hong, Chung-Ang University
Yunyou Huang, Guangxi Normal University
Sascha Hunold, TU Vienna
Khaled Ibrahim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Todor Ivanov, Frankfurt Big Data Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt
Zhen Jia, Amazon
Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Juby Jose, Intel
Gwangsun Kim, POSTECH
Huan Liu, Arizona State University
Gang Lu, Huawei
Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University
Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Lucas Mello Schnorr, UFRGS
Benson Muite, University of Tartu
Bin Ren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Rui Ren, Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Shuaiwen Leon Song, The University of Sydney
Salman Zubair Toor, Uppsala University
Blesson Varghese, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Feiyi Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines
Biwei Xie, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jungang Xu, College of Computer and Control Engineering, University of
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chen Zheng, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiexuan Zhou, Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry