[hpc-announce] HDF5 User Group (HUG) 2021 - Call for Papers and Presentations

[Surendra Byna]

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HDF5 User Group (HUG) 2021 - Call for Papers and Presentations
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HDF5 has been a widely used tool to simplify management and access to scientific
and engineering data with ubiquitous data solutions. With rapidly growing data
across all domains of science and industry, HDF5 developers have been building
technologies that provide rapid, easy, and permanent access to complex data.
HDF5 has been extremely successful with a wide range of users and an ecosystem
built around the HDF5 library. The HDF Group and Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (LBNL) are hosting a virtual HDF5 User Group 2021 (HUG 2021) meeting
to facilitate a broader discussion among HDF5 users around the world.

We invite you to present at the HUG 2021 meeting on October 12-15, 2021. We are
soliciting submissions in two categories “Paper and Presentation” or
“Presentation”.

HUG 2021 Webpage: 
https://www.hdfgroup.org/hug/hug21/ <https://www.hdfgroup.org/hug/hug21/>

Submission Guidelines
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All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal
or conference. The following categories are welcome:

Paper and Presentation
	* For consideration, participants will submit an abstract (up to 500
	  words) discussing novel results and research.
	* Upon acceptance, participants are responsible for submitting the a
	  full paper (up to 10 pages) for review by the HUG 2021 program
	  committee, and giving a 15-20 minute presentation during the virtual
	  HUG 2021 event
	* Participants’ slide deck, presentation recording, and final paper will
	  be published on the HUG 2021 website.

Presentation:
	For consideration, participants will submit an abstract (up to 250
	words) of their proposed talk.
	* Upon acceptance, participants are responsible for a 15-20 minute
	  presentation during the virtual HUG 2021 event.
	* Participants’ slide deck and presentation recording will be published
	  on the HUG 2021 website.

You can submit your proposal online at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hug21 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hug21> 


List of topics
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Submissions are encouraged in the following categories, but not limited to them.

Applications
	*	HDF5 applications in science (any area of sciences)
	*	HDF5 applications in industry (any industry)
	*	Usage experiences
	*	Novel and emerging usage
	*	Exotic usage of HDF5 (surprise us!)

Performance
	*	Performance issues
	*	Debugging performance
	*	I/O performance tuning strategies
	*	Benchmarking

Developer Community
	*	Language Wrappers (h5py / …)
	*	Third-party libraries (netCDF-4 / HDFEOS / …)
	*	Library features and capabilities
	*	Virtual Object Layer (VOL) connector
	*	Filter plugins
	*	Virtual File Drivers

Standards based on HDF5

Data and metadata management
	*	New storage architectures
	*	Parallel I/O
	*	Cloud I/O
	*	In memory data management
	*	Data compression and reduction
	*	Data encoding and decoding
	*	Data validation
	*	Searching data and metadata
	*	Indexing and querying

Analysis
	*	Visualization and analytics
	*	AI (Machine learning, deep learning, etc.)
	*	In situ / in transit analysis methods

HDF5 tools
	*	Issues with command line tools and HDFView
	*	Custom GUI and command line tools
	*	HDF5 and workflow applications
	*	High-level interfaces


Important Dates
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Papers + Presentation Track:
	*	Abstract (Up to 500 words) submission deadline: June 1st, 2021
	*	Acceptance notifications: July 23rd, 2021
	*	Full paper submission: Sept 1st, 2021

Presentation only track:
	*	Abstract (Up to 250 words) submission deadline: Aug 1st, 2021
	*	Presentation acceptance notifications: Aug 15th, 2021

Steering Committee

	*	Elena Pourmal (The HDF Group)
	*	Suren Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
	*	Quincey Koziol (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
	*	Gerd Heber (The HDF Group)
	*	Dax Rodriguez (The HDF Group)
	*	Lori Cooper (The HDF Group)


Venue
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The conference will be held in virtually, hosted by The HDF Group. More
conference info will be posted on the conference website at
https://www.hdfgroup.org/hug/hug21 <https://www.hdfgroup.org/hug/hug21> 

Contact
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to hug at hdfgroup.org <mailto:hug at hdfgroup.org>