======================================================================== Call For Papers Fifth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2019) to be held in conjunction with ISC 2019, June 16 - 20, 2019 Frankfurt, Germany http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/ ======================================================================== Extreme Scale computing in HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Clouds are marked by multiple-levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity ranging from the compute units (many-core CPUs, GPUs, APUs etc) to storage devices (NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics etc) to the network interconnects (InfiniBand, High-Speed Ethernet, Omni-Path etc). Owing to the plethora of heterogeneous communication paths with different cost models expected to be present in extreme scale systems, data movement is seen as the soul of different challenges for exascale computing. On the other hand, advances in networking technologies such as NoCs (like NVLink2 and Stormlake), RDMA enabled networks and the likes are constantly pushing the envelope of research in the field of novel communication and computing architectures for extreme scale computing. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry and national laboratories who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme scale architectures. The objectives of this workshop will be to share the experiences of the members of this community and to learn the opportunities and challenges in the design trends for exascale communication architectures. ExaComm 2019 will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing (ISC 2019), Frankfurt, Germany. Topics ------ ExaComm 2019 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * Scalable communication protocols * High-performance networks * Runtime/middleware designs * Impact of high-performance networks on Deep Learning / Machine Learning * Impact of high-performance networks on Big Data * Novel hardware/software co-design * High-performance communication solutions for accelerator-based computing * Power-aware techniques and designs * Performance evaluations * Quality of Service (QoS) * Resource virtualization and SR-IOV Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Important Dates --------------- Technical paper submission deadline : 11:59 PM AoE Friday, March 29, 2019 Author notification : Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Conference-ready deadline : Friday, June 14, 2019 Workshop : Thursday, June 20, 2019 Camera-ready deadline : Monday, July 22, 2019 Paper Submission and Registration --------------------------------- Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference system. EasyChair URL for ExaComm'19: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exacomm2019 We request the authors to use the LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer's website (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. Submission must be made as a single PDF file which includes all figures and bibliography. Submissions are accepted under the following two categories: Full Paper : 12 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format Short Paper : 8 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format 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. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant in the workshop and present the paper at the workshop. 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; and f) Relevance to Workshop. Every effort will be made to ensure that each paper receives multiple reviews. The papers accepted to be presented in ExaComm'19 will be published in a separate post-conference joint workshop proceeding volume, published online with Springer Publishing. The camera-ready versions need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference management system. The link to the submission site will be provided soon. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications Proceedings Information ----------------------- The papers accepted to be presented in ExaComm'19 will be published in a separate, post-conference joint ISC workshop proceedings volume, published online with Springer Publishing. It serves the purpose to share your paper during the workshop day and to foster discussions. These PDFs will be deleted a week after the conference. You may adjust your paper for the camera-ready version after the workshop day and improve it based on the feedback received. The process for preparing the conference-ready and camera-ready versions of accepted papers are described below. A) Deadlines ------------ There are two deadlines you have to consider: Conference-ready deadline : Friday, June 14, 2019 Camera-ready deadline : Monday, July 22, 2019 The conference-ready paper version will be hosted during the conference and the link will be shared with workshop attendees. It serves the purpose to share your paper during the workshop day and to foster discussions. These PDFs will be deleted a week after the conference. You may adjust your paper for the camera-ready version after the workshop day and improve it based on the feedback received. The camera-ready version will be prepared for publication with Springer. B) Formatting Guidelines for camera-ready submission ---------------------------------------------------- Papers need to be formatted according to Springer's single column LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 for LaTeX and Word templates). For the camera-ready version, the copyright must be transferred to Springer (see D) C) Preparation of the conference-ready proceedings -------------------------------------------------- The papers must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iscworkshops2019) by the deadline. When registering your paper, select your workshop and enter the proper title. You have to fill all author information properly as this field will be used to automatically create the proceedings. You may fill a dummy into the keywords. For the conference-ready version, only the PDF is needed. The proceeding chairs will then download the PDFs for the conference-ready publication. D) Preparation of the camera-ready proceedings ---------------------------------------------- After the conference, the proceedings chairs will modify the proceeding settings on EasyChair and contact you directly using the email function from EasyChair to instruct the final steps. For the camera-ready version, the copyright must be transferred to Springer; an adjusted copyright form will be provided to you after the conference. - In particular, it allows authors self-archiving of the paper Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications. ExaComm'19 Workshop Organizers ------------------------------ Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University Program Committee ----------------- * Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories * Hans Eberle, NVIDIA * Brice Goglin, INRIA, France * Dror Goldenberg, Mellanox Technologies * R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India * Ryan Grant, Sandia National Laboratories * Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China * Takeshi Nanri, University of Kyushu, Japan * Sebastien Rumley, Columbia University * Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany * John M. Shalf, NERSC/LBL * Tor Skeie, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway * Xin Yuan Florida State University * Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Further Information ------------------- See the ExaComm'19 website at http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/ Thanks, The ExaComm'19 Organizing Committee.