[hpc-announce] ISC24-WOCC Workshop on Converged Computing on Edge, Cloud, and HPC - Paper deadline extended to March 11 AOE

[Ivy Peng]

WOCC'24: International Workshop on Converged Computing on Edge, Cloud,
and HPC (Submission Deadline Extended to Mar 11, 2024, AOE)

To be held in conjunction with ISC'24: The International Conference on
High Performance Computing, May 16, 2024, Hamburg, Germany

--- Paper submission deadline has been extended to March 11, 2024. ---

Workshop website:
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Submission webpage:
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## Introduction

The landscape of scientific computing is changing rapidly as complex,
multi-stage pipelined workflows that combine traditional HPC
computations with large-scale data analytics and AI are becoming
increasingly common. Such complex workflows are expected to require
the coordinated use of supercomputers, cloud data centers, and
edge-processing devices in an environment with shared characteristics.
Providing a seamless environment that combines the best of these
worlds leads to an era of Converged Computing.

Cloud computing is becoming a dominant market force, driving
innovation in both hardware and the software needed to manage
increasing system and workflow complexity. Cloud technologies are
gaining prevalence in HPC due to their benefits of resource dynamism,
automation, reproducibility, and resilience. Similarly, HPC
technologies for application performance optimization and
sophisticated scheduling of complex resources are being integrated
into modern cloud infrastructures. However, the convergence of HPC and
cloud also raises a series of new challenges in areas of resource
management, data transfers, storage and throughput.

The Second Workshop on Converged Computing (WOCC'24) will provide the
edge, HPC and cloud communities a dedicated venue for discussing
challenges and research opportunities, deployment efforts, and best
practices in supporting complex workflows on coordinated use of
supercomputers and cloud data centers as well as edge-processing
devices. The workshop aims to spark discussion between participants
who are developing applications, algorithms, middleware, and
infrastructure for converged environments.

## Topics of Interest

Experience and best practice of converged computing of cloud, edge, and HPC
Resource and job management software
Architectures, networks, and storage
Software stack, middleware, and infrastructure
Advanced models for expressing system resources
Scheduling, resource allocation, and adaptation
Complex workflows including HPC, Machine-Learning, and Data Analytics components
Early results and evaluation of porting HPC applications to clouds
Elasticity and scalability amid resource heterogeneity
Virtualization, containers, container runtimes, and container
orchestration frameworks
Scalable and elastic storage and I/O data management services and architectures
Resilience, fault tolerance, and reliability in converged computing environments
Early results of leveraging cloud techniques (e.g., Kubernetes, cloud
databases) for HPC applications
System- and application-level resource monitoring and optimization
techniques and tools

## Important Dates

Paper Submission: Mar 11, 2024 (new extended deadline), AOE
Author Notifications: Apr 01, 2024
Workshop day: May 16, 2024
Camera Ready: June 17, 2024, including Copyright Form

## Program Committee:

Daniel Ahlin (Google, Switzerland)
Antony Chazapis (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
Jakob Luettgau (Inria, France)
Manolis Marazakis (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
Claudia Misale (IBM, USA)
Nina Mujkanovic (HPE, Switzerland)
Yoonho Park (IBM, USA)
Gabriele Russo Russo (Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy)
Nathan Tallent (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Jeff Vetter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Jae-Seung Yeom (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

## Organization Co-chairs:

Daniel Milroy (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
Tapasya Patki (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
Valeria Cardellini (Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy)
Ivy Peng (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)