[CfP] Parallel Application Workshop, Alternatives to MPI+X -- Supercomputing 2019

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             PAW-ATM 2019:

    Parallel Applications Workshop,
        Alternatives To MPI+X

Held in conjunction with SC 19, Denver, CO

http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/

Summary

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

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

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:
IEEE - Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings

PAW-ATM follows the reproducibility initiative of SC19. For more
information, please refer to:
Reproducibility Initiative - SC19
The 5th Annual Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X (PAW-ATM) by sourceryinstitute

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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