[hpc-announce] Call for submissions- CANOPIE-HPC at SC23

[Laurie Stephey]

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5th workshop on Containers and New Orchestration Paradigms for
Isolated Environments in HPC (CANOPIE-HPC) at SC23

CANOPIE-HPC is a workshop focusing on containerization,
virtualization, and other methods to implement user-defined,
bring-your-own, or isolated software environments. Submissions will be
peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in IEEE Computer
Society.

Program chairs: Alberto Madonna and Laurie Stephey
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Important Dates

Submission opens: June 1, 2023
Submission closes (hard deadline - no extensions): August 18, 2023
Decisions: September 8, 2023
Camera ready deadline: September 29, 2023
Workshop date: November 13, 2023

Note: Items are due at 23:59 “anywhere on Earth” on the specified
date. Specifically, this is 23:59 IDLW, i.e., UTC–12:00.
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Overview

The ongoing revolution enabled via containerization, virtualization,
and new orchestration models has dramatically changed how applications
and services are delivered and managed across the computing industry.
This revolution has established a new ecosystem of tools and
techniques with new, flexible and agile approaches, and continues to
gain traction in the HPC community. In addition to HPC-optimized
container runtimes, emerging technologies like Kubernetes create a new
set of opportunities and challenges. While adoption is growing,
questions regarding best practices, foundational concepts, tools, and
standards remain. Our goal is to promote the adoption of these tools
and introspect the impact of this new ecosystem on HPC use cases. This
workshop serves as a key venue for presenting late-breaking research,
sharing experiences and best practices, and fostering collaboration in
this field. Our fifth workshop iteration will continue to emphasize
real-world experiences and challenges in adopting and optimizing these
new approaches for HPC.
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Scope

The scope of this workshop is to better understand and improve
paradigms around containerization, virtualization and orchestration
for HPC use cases. The most well-known approaches are containers and
virtualization, but anything to further these goals is welcome.

Topics include but are not limited to:
* Container runtimes, virtual machine implementations, and other
related technologies
* Perspectives from container framework developers and  maintainers
* System and architecture portability
* Scientific reproducibility, including FAIR considerations
* Experience reports from users, developers, and system administrators
* Lessons from exascale
* HPC in the cloud and/or cloud in the HPC
* GPUs, accelerators, proprietary interconnects, and other hardware
considerations
* Security considerations when adopting container technologies,
including zero trust models
* Container and virtual machine image management, including
distribution and archiving
* Workflows, including interaction between traditional HPC
applications and containerized workflows or edge services
* Performance and scaling studies with containers and/or VMs
* Orchestration, scheduling, and/or resource management of jobs and
microservices
* New interaction techniques such as web apps (Jupyter, Rstudio, etc.)
* Community standards, including OCI
* Role of containerization in DevOps (ex: Gitlab CI/CD)
* Efforts to provide and curate containers
* Improving container user experience
* Future of containers (ex: web assembly, portability)
* Perspectives on container outreach- convincing native application
users/devs to make the jump
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Workshop format

Although in the past several years CANOPIE-HPC has followed a more
traditional format, based on SC22 attendee feedback we plan to adjust
the format for SC23 to include additional lightning talks, panels, and
open discussion. The content of technical sessions will be driven by
the mix of accepted submissions curated by the program chairs. We will
offer two submission tracks: one for full paper submissions, and one
for lightning talks.

Full paper submissions will receive at least 3 peer reviews in the
SC23 submission system on the basis of scientific validity, impact to
the field, reproducibility, and opportunity for interactive discussion
at the workshop. The program committee will discuss the submissions
and their reviews over a conference call moderated by the program
chairs; final proceedings will be selected by majority vote of the
committee. As in all previous years, accepted submissions will be
published by the IEEE Computer Society for inclusion in the IEEE
Digital Library. Artifacts for reproducibility (digital archives of
code, README instructions, images, etc.) will be a significant factor
in paper acceptance into the workshop. Further details are available
in the “Submission procedure” section below.

For lightning talks, participants can submit an abstract that will be
reviewed by the program committee. Our lightning talk track is meant
to showcase demos, exploratory and late-breaking work, pain-points or
shortcomings in current container/virtualization technologies, and
projects that may not be fleshed-out enough to warrant a paper
submission. We especially encourage lightning talk submissions from
early career participants and people who are relatively new to the
world of containers/virtualization.
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Diversity and inclusivity

Similarly to the broader field of HPC, the organizers recognize
concerns with diversity and inclusion in CANOPIE-HPC. We want to
continue to improve diversity and inclusion at leadership, program
committee, and participation levels. The expanded lightning talks
session is intended to lower the barrier to entry in the workshop and
involve more early-career and non-expert participants. We also plan to
include an open discussion section to invite additional audience
questions and participation.

Virtual attendance (another opportunity for inclusion) will be
guaranteed. We’ll make sure we have someone from the program community
monitoring the chat throughout the workshop to address any issues or
questions from our virtual attendees.
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Submission procedure

Accepted manuscripts will be published in IEEE Computer Society.

Manuscripts should use the IEEE Transactions format; templates are
available for Microsoft Word and LaTeX (though note that the IEEEtran
class comes with most LaTeX installations). Manuscripts must be at
least 6 pages in the IEEE Transactions format, including figures,
tables, and references. There is no maximum, but writing should be
concise, and manuscript length must be commensurate with contribution
size.

We enthusiastically welcome original, high-quality submissions within
the scope above. These may describe complete studies; work-in-progress
research; position papers on controversial, emerging, or hot topics;
state of the practice; or any other manuscript the authors believe
should be included in the CANOPIE-HPC program. We encourage
submissions from academia, industry, government, and/or any other type
of institution.

Each manuscript will be assessed using peer review by program
committee members (or outside reviewers, if needed) on the basis of
scientific validity, impact to the field, reproducibility,
inclusivity, and opportunity for useful and lively discussion at the
workshop. Review will be single-masked; i.e., reviewers will know
authors’ identities, but not vice versa. Authors should not anonymize
their manuscripts. Each manuscript submission will be checked using
anti-plagiarism software and can expect to have at least 3 reviews.

In conjunction with the SC Reproducibility Initiative, submissions
should be as transparent as possible regarding all methods.
Submissions are also expected to  provide reproducibility artifacts
such as reproduction instructions, source code, build recipes, and/or
container images. These should be included as part of the submission
in the form of Artifact Description/Artifact Evaluation appendices,
which adhere to an established format adopted by SC23:
https://sc23.supercomputing.org/program/papers/reproducibility-appendices-badges/

The program committee will discuss the submissions and their reviews
and select the program over a video conference meeting. Submissions
will be assessed as-is, with no expectation of substantive revision
after peer review, though some submissions may be accepted conditional
on specified changes (“shepherded”).
Submit your manuscript using the SC23 web system:
https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SC23WorkshopCANOPIEHPCSubmission&site=sc23
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