===================================================================== Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis (VPA18) Held in conjunction with SC18: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Dallas, TX, USA November 11, 2018 (Sunday) https://vpa18.github.io Submission Deadline (extended): October 1, 2018 ===================================================================== Over the last decades an incredible amount of resources has been devoted to building ever more powerful supercomputers. However, exploiting the full capabilities of these machines is becoming exponentially more difficult with each new generation of hardware. To help understand and optimize the behavior of massively parallel simulations the performance analysis community has created a wide range of tools and APIs to collect performance data, such as flop counts, network traffic or cache behavior at the largest scale. However, this success has created a new challenge, as the resulting data is far too large and too complex to be analyzed in a straightforward manner. Therefore, new automatic analysis and visualization approaches must be developed to allow application developers to intuitively understand the multiple, interdependent effects that their algorithmic choices have on the final performance. This workshop will bring together researchers from the fields of performance analysis and visualization to discuss new approaches of applying visualization and visual analytics techniques to large scale applications. Workshop Topics: - Scalable displays of performance data - Case studies demonstrating the use of performance visualization in practice - Data models to enable scalable visualization - Graph representation of unstructured performance data - Presentation of high-dimensional data - Visual correlations between multiple data source - Human-Computer Interfaces for exploring performance data - Multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration Paper Submission: We solicit 8-page full papers as well as 4-page short papers or position papers that focus on techniques OR case studies at the intersection of performance analysis and visualization, and either use visualization techniques to display large scale performance data or that develop new visualization or visual analytics methods that help create new insights. Papers must be submitted in PDF format (readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and higher) and formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter). Submissions are limited to 8 pages in the IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html), using the sample-sigconf template. The 8-page limit includes figures, tables, and references. All papers must be submitted through the Supercomputing 2018 Linklings site: http://submissions.supercomputing.org Important Dates: * Submission deadline (extended): October 1, 2018. (AoE) * Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2018 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: October 29, 2018 (AoE) Workshop Chairs: Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Kevin Huck, University of Oregon Kate Isaacs, University of Arizona