[hpc-announce] [CFP] PDSW at SC23- Papers due July 30th, 2023

[Kira Duwe]

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                               Call for papers: PDSW’23
                 The 8th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop
http://www.pdsw.org
                       November 12, 2023  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
                     Held in conjunction with SC23, Denver, CO
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Important Dates
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Regular Papers and Reproducibility Study Papers
*Submissions due:    July 30th, 2023, 11:59 PM AoE *
Paper Notification:   Sept 8th, 2023, 11:59 PM AoE
Camera ready due:  Sept  29th, 2023, 11:59 PM AoE

Work in Progress (WIP)
*Submissions due:  Sept 15th, 2023, 11:59PM AoE*
WIP Notification:  On or before Sept 23nd, 2023


Abstract
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We are pleased to announce the 8th International Parallel Data Systems 
Workshop (PDSW’23). PDSW'23 will be hosted in conjunction with SC23: The 
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, 
Storage and Analysis, in Denver, CO.

Efficient data storage and data management are crucial to scientific 
productivity in both traditional simulation-oriented HPC environments 
and Big Data analysis environments. This issue is further exacerbated by 
the growing volume of experimental and observational data, the widening 
gap between the performance of computational hardware and storage 
hardware, and the emergence of new data-driven algorithms in machine 
learning. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate research that 
addresses the most critical challenges in scientific data storage and 
data processing. PDSW will continue to build on the successful tradition 
established by its predecessor workshops: the Petascale Data Storage 
Workshop (PDSW, 2006-2015) and the Data Intensive Scalable Computing 
Systems (DISCS 2012-2015) workshop. These workshops were successfully 
combined in 2016, and the resulting joint workshop has attracted up to 
38 full paper submissions and 140 attendees per year from 2016 to 2022.

We encourage the community to submit original manuscripts that:

  * introduce and evaluate novel algorithms or architectures,
  * inform the community of important scientific case studies or
    workloads, or
  * validate the reproducibility of previously published work

Special attention will be given to issues in which community 
collaboration is crucial for problem identification, workload capture, 
solution interoperability, standardization, and shared tools.  We also 
strongly encourage papers to share complete experimental environment 
information (software version numbers, benchmark configurations, etc.) 
to facilitate collaboration.

Topics of interest include the following:

  *   Large-scale data caching architectures
  *   Scalable architectures for distributed data storage, archival, and
    virtualization
  *   The application of new data processing models and algorithms
    towards computing and analysis
  *   Performance benchmarking, resource management, and workload studies
  *   Enabling cloud and container-based models for scientific data
    analysis
  *   Techniques for data integrity, availability, reliability, and
    fault tolerance
  *   Programming models and big data frameworks for data intensive
    computing
  *   Hybrid cloud/on-premise data processing
  *   Cloud-specific data storage and transit costs and opportunities
  *   Programmability of storage systems
  *   Data filtering, compression, reduction techniques
  *   Data and metadata indexing and querying
  *   Parallel file systems, metadata management, and complex data
    management
  *   Integrating computation into the memory and storage hierarchy to
    facilitate in-situ and in-transit data processing
  *   Alternative data storage models, including object stores and
    key-value stores
  *   Productivity tools for data intensive computing, data mining, and
    knowledge discovery
  *   Tools and techniques for managing data movement among compute and
    data intensive components
  *   Cross-cloud data management
  *   Storage system optimization and data analytics with machine learning
  *   Innovative techniques and performance evaluation for new memory
    and storage systems


Regular Paper Submissions
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All papers will be evaluated by a competitive peer review process under 
the supervision of the workshop program committee. Selected papers and 
associated talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site. 
The papers will also be published in the SC23 Workshop Proceedings.

Authors of regular papers are strongly encouraged to submit Artifact 
Description (AD) Appendices that can help to reproduce and validate 
their experimental results. While the inclusion of the AD Appendices is 
optional for PDSW’23, submissions that are accompanied by AD Appendices 
will be given favorable consideration for the PDSW Best Paper award.

PDSW’23 follows the SC23 Reproducibility Initiative. For Artifact 
Description (AD) Appendices, we will use the format of the SC23 for 
PDSW'23 submissions. The AD should include a field for one or more links 
to data (zenodo, figshare, etc.) and code (github, gitlab, bitbucket, 
etc.) repositories. For the Artifacts that will be placed in the code 
repository, we encourage authors to follow the PDSW 2023 Reproducibility 
Addendum on how to structure the artifact, as it will make it easier for 
the reviewing committee and readers of the paper in the future.

Submit a not previously published paper as a PDF file, indicate authors 
and affiliations. Papers must be up to 6 pages, not less than 10 point 
font and not including references and optional reproducibility appendices.
*Submission site*: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/

*Submissions due: *July 30th, 2023, 11:59 PM AoE
Papers must use the ACM conference paper template available at:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template


Work-in-progress (WIP) Session
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There will be a WIP session where presenters provide brief 5-minute 
talks on their on-going work, with fresh problems/solutions. WIP content 
is typically material that may not be mature or complete enough for a 
full paper submission and will not be included in the proceedings. A 
one-page abstract is required.
Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/


Workshop Organizers
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General Chair
- Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China

Program Co-Chairs
- Bing Xie, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Suren Byna, The Ohio State University, USA

Reproducibility Co-Chairs
- Tanu Malik, DePaul University, USA
- Jean Luca Bez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Publicity Chair
- Kira Duwe, EPFL, Switzerland

Web and Proceedings Chair
- Joan Digney, Carnegie Mellon University