[hpc-announce] [Call for Participation] 2023 BenchCouncil International Federated Intelligent Computing and Chip Conference (FICC 2023)

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2023 BenchCouncil International Federated Intelligent Computing and Chip Conference (FICC 2023)
Web: https://www.benchcouncil.org/ficc2023/

 * Dec. 3-6, 2023, Sanya, Hainan, China

FICC 2023 assembles a spectrum of affiliated research conferences:
-- The 15th BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench 2023)
https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench2023/
-- 2023 International Symposium on Open-source Computer Systems (OpenCS 2023)
https://www.computercouncil.org/opencs2023/
-- 2023 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Chips (Chips 2023)
https://www.benchcouncil.org/chips2023/
-- 2023 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Intelligent Computers, Algorithms, and Applications (IC 2023)
Shttps://www.benchcouncil.org/ic2023/  
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Highlights:
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10 keynotes:
  ** Academician Summit
  -- AI for Science, RISC-V ecosystem, Brain-inspired computing, Machine Creation, AIGC for system and architecture, etc.
  ** Prof. D. K. Panda, The Ohio State University
  -- Designing High-Performance and Scalable Middleware and Benchmarks for HPC, AI, and Data Sciences
  -- Creating Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Democratizing AI: Overview of the Activities at the NSF-AI Institute ICICLE
2 Award Lectures:
  ** 2023 BenchCouncil Achievement Award
  ** 2023 BenchCouncil Rising Star Award
Top 100 AI Achievements (1940s-2021)
Top 100 Chips Achievements (1940s-2021)
Top 100 Opensource Achievements (1960s-2021)
Top 100 Evaluation & Benchmark Achievements (1930s-2021)
2022-2023 Annual Top 100 AI Achievement 
2022-2023 Annual Top 100 Chips Achievement
2022-2023 Annual Top 100 Opensource Achievement
2022-2023 Annual Top 100 Evaluation & Benchmark Achievements
350+ invited talks on AI, Chips, Opensource, Evaluation & Benchmark
85 paper presentation


Preliminary Program
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https://www.benchcouncil.org/ficc2023/#schedule-section 


Registration
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https://www.benchcouncil.org/ficc2023/#tickets-section


Registration Benefit
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(1) FICC 2023 consists of the following four events. The registrants can freely attend all the four conferences. 
- The 15th BenchCouncil International Symposium On Benchmarking, Measuring And Optimizing (Bench 2023)
- 2023 International Symposium on Open-source Computer Systems (OpenCS 2023)
- 2023 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Chips (Chips 2023)
- 2023 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Intelligent Computers, Algorithms, and Applications (IC 2023)
(2) Banquet at Dec. 3rd, 2023
(3) Lunch from Dec. 3rd to 6th, 2023
(4) Dinner from Dec. 4th to Dec. 5th, 2023
(5) Meeting material
(6) BenchCouncil souvenir
Note that any admission item does not include accommodation and transportation fees.


Refund policy
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If you need a cancellation and refund, please let the registration chair (Hainan Ye, yehainan at mail.bafst.com, and Guoxin Kang, kangguoxin at ict.ac.cn) know ASAP.
(1) If canceled by Oct. 31, 2023, the amount refunded would be 100%.
(2) If canceled by Nov. 15, 2023, the amount refunded would be 80%.
(3) Non-refundable after Nov. 15, 2023.
(4) No refund will be provided if the registrant is the only author of an accepted paper who has registered for the conference. Note that multiple papers cannot share the same registration.
  

Visa
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Please be aware that if you need a Visa to attend FICC 2023, you need to register for the conference first. Please email the conference registration Chair, Dr. Guoxin Kang (kangguoxin at ict.ac.cn), with the information (e.g., Name, Institution, paper title and author list) after you complete your registration. 

59 visa-exempt countries:
Russia, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Norway, Ukraine, Italy, Austria, Finland, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ireland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Monaco, Belarus.


About FICC
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The mission of BenchCouncil is to provide a pioneering technology map through searching and advancing state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice in the chip, AI, open-source systems, benchmarks, and evaluations. The BenchCouncil staff will invite worldwide contributors to showcase their superior benchmarks, tools, system, algorithms, and applications. Each affiliated conference also solicits manuscripts describing original work in the above areas and topics.