[hpc-announce] ESPM2 at SC21 - Deadline Extension: Papers due Sept 10

Tue Aug 31 10:21:19 CDT 2021

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           Call For Papers (Deadline Extension Announcement)

             Sixth International Workshop on Extreme Scale

                Programming Models and Middleware

                            (ESPM2 2021)

                   to be held in conjunction with

              SuperComputing 2021, November 15, 2021

                         St. Louis, Missouri

                http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/

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Next-generation architectures and systems being deployed are characterized
by high concurrency, low memory per-core, and multiple levels of hierarchy
and heterogeneity. These characteristics bring out new challenges in energy
efficiency, fault-tolerance, and scalability. It is commonly believed that
software has the biggest share of the responsibility to tackle these
challenges. In other words, this responsibility is delegated to the next
generation programming models and their associated middleware/runtimes.
This workshop focuses on different aspects of programming models such as
task-based parallelism (Charm++, OCR, Habanero, Legion, X10, HPX, etc),
PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.), BigData (Hadoop, Spark,
Dask etc), Machine Learning (NVIDIA RAPIDS, Scikit-learn etc.), Deep
Learning (Caffe, Microsoft CNTK, Google TensorFlow, Facebook PyTorch),
directive-based languages (OpenMP, OpenACC) and Hybrid MPI+X, etc. It also
focuses on their associated middleware (unified runtimes, interoperability
for hybrid programming, tight integration of MPI+X, and support for
accelerators/FPGAs) for next-generation systems and architectures.

The ultimate objective of the ESPM2 workshop is to serve as a forum that
brings together researchers from academia and industry working in the areas
of programming models, runtime systems, compilation, and languages, and
application developers.

ESPM2 2021 will be held as a full-day workshop in conjunction with
SuperComputing (SC 2021) in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Topics

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ESPM2 2021 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but

not limited to:

    * New programming models, languages and constructs for exploiting high

      concurrency and heterogeneity

    * Experience with and improvements for existing parallel languages and

      run-time environments such as:

        - MPI

        - PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.)

        - Directive-based programming (OpenMP, OpenACC)

        - Asynchronous Task-based models (Charm++, OCR, Habanero, Legion,

          X10, HPX, etc)

        - Hybrid MPI+X models

        - BigData (Hadoop, Spark, Dask etc.)

        - Machine Learning (NVIDIA RAPIDS, Scikit-learn etc.)

        - Deep Learning (Microsoft CNTK, TensorFlow, PyTorch)

    * Parallel compilers, programming tools, and environments

    * Software and system support for extreme scalability including fault

      tolerance

    * Programming environments for heterogeneous multi-core systems and

      accelerators such as KNL, OpenPOWER, ARM, GPUs, FPGAs, MICs, and DSPs

Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient

background material to make them accessible to the broader community.

Keynote Speakers

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Details coming soon.

Panel Information

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Details coming soon!

Paper Submission and Registration

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Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the Linklings

conference system (https://submissions.supercomputing.org).

After logging in, please select the "Make a New Submission"

tab on the top. Click on the "SC21 Workshop: ESPM2 2021"

link among the available options to submit your work.

Submissions should not exceed 8 pages using IEEE conference format

with 10pt font. Each submission must be a single PDF file (see

https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html)

Papers must be submitted in PDF format (readable by Adobe Acrobat

Reader 5.0 and higher) and formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter).

Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient

background material to make them accessible to the broader community. It

should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or

journal.

Reproducibility Initiative

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For all technical papers submitted to ESPM2'21, we request

the authors to include an "Artifact Description Appendix".

Please use the following Artifact Description Template

template to create the appendix

(https://collegeville.github.io/sc-reproducibility/ArtifactDescriptionAppendixTemplate.html).

The appendix can be uploaded as a separate PDF document in

the submission site.

Please note the following:

    1.  The completed appendix must be at most 2 pages

    2.  The appendix is meant to provide information about the computing

        environment you used to produce your results, reducing barriers for

        future replication of your results by others in the community.

    3.  If a new software package is developed as part of the publication, it

        software must be downloadable by anyone without restriction to enable

        replication of your results by others in the community.

        - Note that this does not require you to make your code available in an

          open source manner.

    4.  A paper cannot be disqualified based on information provided or not

        provided in this appendix, nor if the appendix is not available.

    5.  The availability and quality of an appendix can be used in ranking a

        paper. In particular, if two papers are of similar quality, the

        existence and quality of the appendices can be part of the evaluation

        process.

Proceedings Information

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The workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE TCHPC and

included in the the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Each research paper will be taken through a comprehensive peer review

process by an internationally recognized group of experts in the field.

Papers will be evaluated along the metrics of a) Quality of Presentation;

b) Novelty / Originality; c) Relation to State of the Art; d) Technical

Strength; e) Significance of Work; f) Relevance to Workshop; and g)

Availability and quality of the "Artifact Description Appendix". Every

effort will be made to ensure that each paper receives multiple reviews.

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.

Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications

Important Dates

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Full paper submission deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, Aug 27, 2021 (11:59 PM, AoE, Sept 10, 2021)

Author notification                 : October 1, 2021

Camera-ready deadline               : 11:59 PM, AoE, October 7, 2021

Workshop                            : Monday, November 15th, 2021

ESPM2'21 Workshop Organizers

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Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University

Aamir Shafi, The Ohio State University

Karl Schulz, University of Texas at Austin

Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University

Program Committee (Confirmed so far)

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* Ritu Arora, University of Texas at San Antonio
* Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
* Martin Berzins, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, Universityof Utah
* Mahdieh Ghazmirsaeed, AMD
* Jeff Hammond, NVIDIA
* Nusrat Islam, Intel Corporation
* Tanzima Islam, Texas State University
* Antonio J. Pena, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
* Sean Treichler, NVIDIA Corporation
* Abhinav Vishnu, AMD Research

Further Information

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See the ESPM2'21 website at

http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/

Thanks,

The ESPM2'21 Organizing Committee.