Hi Chapel Community —
Now that we're past CHIUW 2019, please keep in mind that the deadline for
paper and talk submissions to the PAW-ATM workshop at SC19 is coming up in
just over a month. If you're doing applications work in Chapel (or other
alternatives to MPI+X), please consider submitting something to PAW-ATM.
For further details see the PAW-ATM webpage online:
https://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/
Or the call for papers below.
Best wishes,
-Brad
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Call for Papers
PAW-ATM 2019:
Parallel Applications Workshop,
Alternatives To MPI+X
Held in conjunction with SC 19, Denver, CO
In cooperation with TCHPC
<http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/>
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Summary
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Supercomputers are becoming increasingly complex due to the prevalence of
hierarchy and heterogeneity in emerging node and system architectures.
As a result of these trends, users of conventional programming models for
scalable high-performance applications increasingly find themselves
writing applications using a mix of distinct programming models—such as
Fortran90, C, C++, MPI, OpenMP, and CUDA—which are also often becoming
more complex and detail-oriented themselves. These trends negatively
impact the costs of developing, porting, and maintaining HPC applications.
Meanwhile, new programming models and languages are being developed that
strive to improve upon the status quo. This is accomplished by unifying
the expression of parallelism and locality across the system, raising the
level of abstraction, making use of modern language design features,
and/or leveraging the respective strengths of programmers, compilers,
runtimes, and operating systems. These alternatives may take the form of
parallel programming languages (e.g., Chapel, Fortran 2018, Julia, UPC),
frameworks for large-scale data processing and analytics (e.g., Spark,
Tensorflow, Dask), or libraries and embedded DSLs that extend existing
languages (e.g., Legion, COMPSs, SHMEM, HPX, Charm++, UPC++, Coarray C++,
Global Arrays).
The PAW-ATM workshop is designed to explore the expression of applications
in scalable parallel programming models that serve as an alternative to
the status quo. It is designed to bring together applications experts and
proponents of high-level programming models to present concrete and
practical examples of using such alternative models and to illustrate the
benefits of high-level approaches to scalable programming.
Scope and Aims
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The PAW-ATM workshop is designed as a forum for exhibiting studies of
parallel applications developed using high-level parallel programming
models serving as alternatives to MPI+X-based programming. We encourage
the submission of papers and talks that describe practical
distributed-memory applications written using alternatives to MPI+X, and
include characterizations of scalability and performance, expressiveness
and programmability, as well as any downsides or areas for improvement in
such models. Our hope is to create a forum in which architects, language
designers, and users can present, learn about, and discuss the state of
the art in alternative scalable programming models while also wrestling
with how to increase their effectiveness and adoption. Beyond
well-established HPC scientific simulations, we also encourage submissions
exploring artificial intelligence, big data analytics, machine learning,
and other emerging application areas.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Novel application development using high-level parallel programming
languages and frameworks.
* Examples that demonstrate performance, compiler optimization, error
checking, and reduced software complexity.
* Applications from artificial intelligence, data analytics,
bioinformatics, and other novel areas.
* Performance evaluation of applications developed using alternatives
to MPI+X and comparisons to standard programming models.
* Novel algorithms enabled by high-level parallel abstractions.
* Experience with the use of new compiler and runtime environments.
* Libraries using or supporting alternatives to MPI+X.
* Benefits of hardware abstraction and data locality on algorithm
implementation.
Submissions
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Submissions are solicited in two categories:
1) Full-length papers presenting novel research results:
* Full-length papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Submitted papers must describe original work that has not appeared
in, nor is under consideration for, another conference or
journal. Papers shall be eight (8) pages minimum and not exceed
ten (10) including text, appendices, and figures. Appendix pages
related to the reproducibility initiative dependencies, namely the
Artifact Description (AD) and Artifact Evaluation (AE), are not
included in the page count.
2) Extended abstracts summarizing preliminary/published results:
* Extended abstracts will be evaluated separately and will not be
included in the published proceedings; they are intended to
propose timely communications of novel work that will be formally
submitted elsewhere at a later stage, and/or of already published
work that would be of interest to the PAW-ATM audience in terms of
topic and timeliness. Extended abstracts shall not exceed four
(4) pages.
When deciding between submissions with similar merit, ties will be broken
by giving weight to full-length paper submissions over extended abstracts.
In addition, submissions whose focus relates more directly to the key
themes of the workshop (application studies, computing at scale,
high-level alternatives to MPI+X) will be given priority over those that
don't.
Submissions shall be submitted through Linklings:
https://submissions.supercomputing.org
Submissions must use 10pt font in the IEEE format:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
PAW-ATM follows the reproducibility initiative of SC19. For more
information, please refer to:
https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/
http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/
Committee
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WORKSHOP CHAIR
* Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratory
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Rosa M. Badia - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
* Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc.
* Sean Treichler - NVIDIA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
* Bill Long - Cray Inc.
* Francesco Rizzi - NexGen Analytics
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Olivier Aumage - Inria
* Rosa M. Badia - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
* Vicenç Beltran - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
* John Biddiscombe - CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
* Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc.
* Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University
* Marta G. Gasulla - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
* Magne Haveraaen - University of Bergen
* Costin Iancu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* Laxmikant Kale - University of Illinois
* Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories
* Bill Long - Cray Inc.
* Swaroop S. Pophale - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* Jason Riedy - Georgia Institute of Technology
* Francesco Rizzi - NexGen Analytics
* Mitsuhisa Sato - RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science
* Elliott Slaughter - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
* Sean Treichler - NVIDIA
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
* Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University
* Damian W. I. Rouson - Sourcery Institute
* Katherine A. Yelick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
IMPORTANT DATES:
* Submission Deadline: July 31, 2019
* Author Notification: September 1, 2019
* Camera Ready: October 1, 2019
* Workshop Date: November 17|18|22, 2019
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