======================================================================== Call For Papers Fifth International IEEE Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and Middleware (ESPM2 2020) to be held in conjunction with SuperComputing 2020, November 15 - 20, 2020 Atlanta, Georgia http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/ ======================================================================== The fifth edition of ESPM2 workshop, being proposed to be held as a full-day meeting with the Supercomputing (SC'2020) conference in Atlanta, Georgia focuses on programming models and runtimes for extreme scale systems. Next generation architectures and systems being deployed are characterized by high concurrency, low memory per-core, and multiple levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity. These characteristics bring out new challenges in energy efficiency, fault-tolerance and, scalability. It is commonly believed that software has the biggest share of the responsibility to tackle these challenges. In other words, this responsibility is delegated to the next generation programming models and their associated middleware/runtimes. This workshop focuses on different aspects of programming models such as task-based parallelism (Charm++, OCR, Habanero, Legion, X10, HPX, etc), PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.), BigData (Hadoop, Spark, Dask etc), Machine Learning (NVIDIA RAPIDS, Scikit-learn etc.), Deep Learning (Caffe, Microsoft CNTK, Google TensorFlow, Facebook PyTorch), directive-based languages (OpenMP, OpenACC) and Hybrid MPI+X, etc. It also focuses on their associated middleware (unified runtimes, interoperability for hybrid programming, tight integration of MPI+X, and support for accelerators/FPGAs) for next generation systems and architectures. The ultimate objective of the ESPM2 workshop is to serve as a forum that brings together researchers from academia and industry working in the areas of programming models, runtime systems, compilers, programing languages, and application developers. ESPM2 2020 will be held as a full day workshop in conjunction with the SuperComputing (SC 2020), on Sunday November 15th in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Topics ------ ESPM2 2020 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * New programming models, languages and constructs for exploiting high concurrency and heterogeneity * Experience with and improvements for existing parallel languages and run-time environments such as: - MPI - PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.) - Directive-based programming (OpenMP, OpenACC) - Asynchronous Task-based models (Charm++, OCR, Habanero, Legion, X10, HPX, etc) - Hybrid MPI+X models - BigData (Hadoop, Spark, Dask etc.) - Machine Learning (NVIDIA RAPIDS, Scikit-learn etc.) - Deep Learning (Microsoft CNTK, TensorFlow, PyTorch) * Parallel compilers, programming tools, and environments * Software and system support for extreme scalability including fault tolerance * Programming environments for heterogeneous multi-core systems and accelerators such as KNL, OpenPOWER, ARM, GPUs, FPGAs, MICs, and DSPs Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Keynote Speakers ---------------- Details coming soon! Panel Information ----------------- Details coming soon! Paper Submission and Registration --------------------------------- Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the Linklings conference system (https://submissions.supercomputing.org). After logging in, please select the "Make a New Submission" tab on the top. Click on the "SC20 Workshop: ESPM2 2020" link among the available options to submit your work. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages using IEEE conference format with 10pt font. Each submission must be a single PDF file (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) 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). Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. It should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. Reproducibility Initiative -------------------------- For all technical papers submitted to ESPM2'20, we request the authors to include an "Artifact Description Appendix". Please use the following Artifact Description Template template to create the appendix (https://collegeville.github.io/sc-reproducibility/ArtifactDescriptionAppendi...). The appendix can be uploaded as a separate PDF document in the submission site. Please note the following: 1. The completed appendix must be at most 2 pages 2. The appendix is meant to provide information about the computing environment you used to produce your results, reducing barriers for future replication of your results by others in the community. 3. If a new software package is developed as part of the publication, it software must be downloadable by anyone without restriction to enable replication of your results by others in the community. - Note that this does not require you to make your code available in an open source manner. 4. A paper cannot be disqualified based on information provided or not provided in this appendix, nor if the appendix is not available. 5. The availability and quality of an appendix can be used in ranking a paper. In particular, if two papers are of similar quality, the existence and quality of the appendices can be part of the evaluation process. Proceedings Information ----------------------- The workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE TCHPC and included in the the IEEE Xplore digital library. Each research paper will be taken through a comprehensive peer review process by an internationally recognized group of experts in the field. Papers will be evaluated along the metrics of a) Quality of Presentation; b) Novelty / Originality; c) Relation to State of the Art; d) Technical Strength; e) Significance of Work; f) Relevance to Workshop; and g) Availability and quality of the "Artifact Description Appendix". Every effort will be made to ensure that each paper receives multiple reviews. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant of the workshop and present the paper at the workshop, in order to have the paper published in the proceedings. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications Important Dates --------------- Technical paper submission deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, August 31, 2020 Author notification : October 1, 2020 Camera-ready deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, October 7, 2020 Workshop : Sunday, November 15th, 2020 ESPM2'20 Workshop Organizers ---------------------------- Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Karl Schulz, University of Texas at Austin Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University Web and Publicity Chair ----------------------- Aamir Shafi, The Ohio State University Program Committee (Confirmed so far) ------------------------------------ * Ritu Arora, University of Texas, San Antonio * Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology * Martin Berzins, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah * Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware * Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK * William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Jeff Hammond, Intel Labs * Nusrat Islam, Intel Corporation * Laxmikant V (Sanjay) Kale, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign * Ian Karlin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany * Olivier Tardieu, IBM Research * Daniel Tian, The Portland Group * Sean Treichler, NVIDIA Corporation * Abhinav Vishnu, AMD Research * Jeremiah Wilke, Sandia National Laboratory Further Information ------------------- See the ESPM2'20 website at http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/ Thanks, The ESPM2'20 Organizing Committee.