[CfP] Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X -- Supercomputing 2024

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Call for Papers PAW-ATM 2024:
Parallel Applications Workshop,
Alternatives To MPI+X

Held in conjunction with SC24, Atlanta, GA

Submissions deadline: July 24, 2024
Notification to authors: August 30, 2024
Workshop date: November 17|18, 2024

https://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/

SUMMARY

As supercomputers become more and more powerful, the number and diversity of
applications that can be tackled with these machines grows. Unfortunately, the
architectural complexity of these supercomputers grows as well, with heterogeneous
processors, multiple levels of memory hierarchy, and many ways to move data and
synchronize between processors. The MPI+X programming model, use of which is
considered by many to be standard practice, demands that a programmer be expert
in both the application domain and the low-level details of the architecture(s)
on which that application will be deployed, and the availability of such superhuman
programmers is a critical bottleneck. Things become more complicated when evolution
and change in the underlying architecture translates into significant re-engineering
of the MPI+X code to maintain performance.

Numerous alternatives to the MPI+X model exist, and by raising the level of
abstraction on the application domain and/or the target architecture, they offer
the ability for “mere mortal” programmers to take advantage of the supercomputing
resources that are available to advance science and tackle urgent real-world problems.
However, compared to the MPI+X approach, these alternatives generally lack two things.
First, they aren’t as well known as MPI+X and a domain scientist may simply not be
aware of models that are a good fit to their domain. Second, they are less mature
than MPI+X and likely have more functionality or performance “potholes” that need
only be identified to be addressed.

PAW-ATM is a forum for discussing HPC applications written in alternatives to
MPI+X. Its goal is to bring together application experts and proponents of
high-level languages to present concrete example uses of such alternatives,
describing their benefits and challenges.

SCOPE AND AIMS

The PAW-ATM workshop is designed to be a forum for discussion of
supercomputing-scale parallel applications and their implementation in programming
models outside of the dominant MPI+X paradigm. Papers and talks will explore the
benefits (or perhaps drawbacks) of implementing specific applications with
alternatives to MPI+X, whether those benefits are in performance, scalability,
productivity, or some other metric important to that application domain.
Presenters are encouraged to generalize the experience with their application
to other domains in science and engineering and to bring up specific areas of
improvement for the model(s) used in the implementation.

In doing so, our hope is to create a setting in which application authors, language
designers, and architects can present 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 of interest 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 compilers and runtime environments

Libraries using or supporting alternatives to MPI+X

Benefits of hardware abstraction and data locality on algorithm implementation

Papers that include description of applications that demonstrate the use of
alternative programming models will be given higher priority.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions are solicited in two tracks:

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) pages including text, figures,
and non-AD appendices, but excluding bibliography and acknowledgments.

PAW-ATM follows the reproducibility initiative of SC24. Submissions shall include
an Artifact Description (AD) appendix. The appendix pages related to the
reproducibility initiative dependencies are not included in the page count.
See The 7th Annual Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X (PAW-ATM) by sourceryinstitute for further details.

2. User experience abstracts:

Abstracts will be evaluated separately and will not be included in the published
proceedings. Submissions in this track will include a title and a 1-page abstract
and the content may include any combination of novel and/or previously published
work that is relevant to the workshop’s scope.

WORKSHOP CHAIR

Karla Vanessa Morris Wright - Sandia National Laboratories

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Engin Kayraklioglu - Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Kenjiro Taura - University of Tokyo

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Bill Long - Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Daniele Lezzi - Barcelona Supercomputing Center

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marjan Asgari - National Resources Canada

Scott Baden - University of California, San Diego

Dan Bonachea - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jan Ciesko - Sandia National Laboratory

Nelson Dias - Federal University of Parana

Mario Di Renzo - University of Salento

David Eberius - Intel

Engin Kayraklioglu - Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Daniele Lezzi - Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Bill Long - Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Francesc Lordan - Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Henry Monge Camacho - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories

Irene Moulitsas - Cranfield University

Catherine Olschanowsky - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Tom Quinn - University of Washington

Michel Schanen - Argonne National Laboratory

Elliott Slaughter - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Kenjiro Taura - University of Tokyo

Thiago Teixeira - Intel

Jana Thayer - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Miwako Tsuji - Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Bradford L. Chamberlain - Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Damian W. I. Rouson - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ARTIFACT EVALUATION COMMITTEE CHAIR

Irene Moulitsas - Cranfield University

Elliott Slaughter - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

ARTIFACT EVALUATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez - New Jersey Institute of Technology

Desmond Bisandu - Cranfield University

Yakup Budanaz - ETH Zurich

Fabio Durastante - University of Pisa

Guillaume Helbecque - University of Lille

Boyu Neil Kuang - Cranfield University

Soren Rasmussen - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Kate Rasmuseen - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Anjiang Wei - Stanford University

IMPORTANT DATES

Manuscript Submissions deadline: July 24, 2024

Artifact Description (AD) Stage 1 (mandatory) Submissions deadline: July 24, 2024

Notification to authors: August 30, 2024

Artifact Evaluation (AE) Stage 2 (optional) Submissions deadline: September 4, 2024

AE and Reproducibility Badges review period: September 5-27, 2024

Final program: September 27, 2024

Final AD/AE/Badges decisions and notification to authors: September 30, 2024

Camera-ready papers due from authors: October 2, 2024

November 17|18, 2024: Workshop at SC24