[hpc-announce] [Bench'21] Abstract submission deadline in 10 days - 2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing

[Chen Liu]

Bench’21  - Abstract submission deadline in 10 days

2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring
and Optimizing (Bench’ 21)

http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/index.html

November 14-16, 2021, Virtual Conference

Important Dates:

Abstracts: July 16, 2021

Full Papers: July 30, 2021

Notification: September 15, 2021

Final Papers Due: October 11, 2021

The Bench conference encompasses a wide range of topics in
benchmarking, measurement, evaluation methods and tools. Bench’s
multi-disciplinary emphasis provides an ideal environment for
developers and researchers from the architecture, system, algorithm,
and application communities to discuss practical and theoretical work
covering workload characterization, benchmarks and tools, evaluation,
measurement and optimization, and dataset generation.

Manuscripts describing original work in the area of benchmarking,
evaluation methods and tools in Big Data, AI, HPC and Computing
Architectures on one of the following topics are welcome.

- Benchmark and standard specifications, implementations, and validations.

- Dataset Generation and Analysis.

- Workload characterization, quantitative measurement, design and
evaluation studies.

- Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms and tools.

- Measurement and evaluation.

Please refer to the long version of the call for papers for more
details (https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/cfp.html ).

Paper Submission: The full version of the paper should be submitted as
a PDF file following the submission guidelines available at the
conference website at :
https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/guideline.html. Submission issues
should be directed to the program chairs (wanglei_2011 at ict.ac.cn,
axel.ngonga at uni-paderborn.de, cliu at clarkson.edu). Please consult the
Bench’21 website for additional information about the conference and
submission details.

Publication: All accepted papers will be presented at the Bench’21
conference and will be published in a special issue of the
BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluation
(TBench).

Awards: Bench’21 conference will present the BenchCouncil Achievement
Award ($3000), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1000), the
BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award ($1000)，and the
BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1000). To encourage reliable and
reproducible research using the benchmarks from all organizations, the
Bench conference presents the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for
Reproducible Research to the papers using publicly available
benchmarks. Each article receives a $100 prize, for up to 12 articles.
Please check the conference webpage for more information.

General Chairs: Resit Sendag (University of Rhode Island, USA), Arne
J. Berre (SINTEF Digital, Norway).

Program Chairs: Lei Wang (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Axel
Ngonga (Paderborn University), Chen Liu (Clarkson University).

Steering Committee: Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee), Geoffrey
Fox (Indiana University), D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University),
Felix Wolf (TU Darmstadt), Xiaoyi Lu (University of California,
Merced), Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences & UCAS),
Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences & BenchCouncil).
Special Session Chair: Xiaoyi Lu (The University of California, Merced)