[hpc-announce] [CFP] FPGA for HPC Workshop 2021 (virtual workshop)

[Ryohei KOBAYASHI]

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                       FPGA for HPC Workshop 2021
               held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2021

               https://sites.google.com/view/hpcfpga2021

                        Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
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Objective of Workshop:
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The cluster computing for High Performance Computing (HPC) has been improved both its performance and data handling capabilities mainly thanks to the increase of operation frequency, number of cores per chip and degree of parallelism per instruction. Facing to the limit of power consumption, however, recent world top-class clusters are equipped with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to enhance their performance/power efficiency for many applications suitable with this accelerating architecture. On the other hand, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has been attractive to compensate several performance difficulties in GPU-only acceleration such as (partial) lack of parallelism in the application, its passive operation under CPU control, not ready for direct communication by itself, etc. We focus on recent great advantage of high-end FPGAs to cover these problems by GPU-only solution as the new technology for next generation of accelerated computing.

FPGA for HPC 2021 Workshop targets the FPGA technologies for mainly (but not limited) High Performance Computing to support computation power, high bandwidth memory usage, optimized FPGA design, programming technique, high speed communication link utilization, etc. The workshop is constructed with contributed technical paper presentation, keynote and invited talks and short panel discussion. The organizers like to provide this workshop as a cross field for exchanging valuable knowledge and technology to be shared by researchers on advanced FPGA technology and applications.

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Important Dates:
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- Paper submission deadline: June 25th
- Acceptance notification: July 19th
- Final camera ready deadline: July 30th

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Workshop Coverage Area:
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The workshop covers the following, but not limited, FPGA related research on system and application for High Performance Computing and other useful applications.

- FPGA-ready cluster system hardware and software, including FPGA itself, supporting system on host CPU, etc.
- FPGA programming model and supporting system
- FPGA applications including HPC, AI, data science, etc.
- FPGA optical link communication system
- Parallel FPGA programming system
- Peripheral controlling by/with FPGA including network, storage, etc.
- Multi-hybrid system with FPGA and other accelerators

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Proceedings:
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All accepted papers are published in the workshop volume of IEEE Cluster 2021.

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Conference Operation:
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IEEE Cluster 2021 and its workshops are operated virtually, from its original plan to be held in Portland, Oregon.

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Paper Submission:
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All contributed papers should be submitted through EasyChair titled “HPC-FPGA-Cluster2021”.
More details: https://sites.google.com/view/hpcfpga2021/submission

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Committee:
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Organizing Committee
- Taisuke Boku, Unviersity of Tsukuba (Chair)
- Martin Herbordt, Boston University
- Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory
- Kentaro Sano, RIKEN R-CCS

Organizing Deputy Co-Chairs
- Ryohei Kobayashi, University of Tsukuba
- Norihisa Fujita, University of Tsukuba

Program Committee
- Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba
- Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory
- Paul Chow, University of Toronto
- Norhisa Fujita, University of Tsukuba
- Tong Geng, Pacific Northwest National Lab
- Diana Goehringer, Technische Universität Dresden
- Martin Herbordt, Boston University
- Ryohei Kobayashi, University of Tsukuba
- Venkata Krishnan, Intel
- Seyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Xavier Martorell, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Hiroki Matsutani, Keio University
- Hiroki Nakahara, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yasunori Osana, University of Ryukyus
- Christian Plessl, Paderborn University
- Kentaro Sano, RIKEN R-CCS
- Yoshiki Yamaguchi, University of Tsukuba
- Kazutomo Yoshii, Argonne National Laboratory

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Contact:
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Any question on the workshop should be mailed to hpc-fpga-ws2021 at hpcs.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp

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Ryohei KOBAYASHI
University of Tsukuba
Center for Computational Sciences
E-mail: kobayashi at cs.tsukuba.ac.jp