================================================================= Fourth Workshop on Open Source Supercomputing (OpenSuCo-4) Dallas, Texas, USA Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS & LIGHTNING DEMOS http://www.opensuco.community ================================================================= Increased specialization is an effective way for HPC to continue performance scaling at the end of MOSFET scaling. To decrease design cost - in both money and time, rapid hardware prototyping methods combined with flexible software stacks and programming models must be explored. Open source solutions may provide the best opportunities for specialization and the OpenSuCo Workshop seeks to encapsulate a wealth of effort in design, prototyping and cross-functional collaboration of open source hardware, software and scientific computing projects in a singular point of technical discussion and exchange. As the limits of MOSFET/Dennard scaling grow ever closer, the high performance/technical computing community continually seeks new methods by which to continue scaling system performance and, potentially, system efficiency. The goal of this workshop is to engage the HPC community and explore open source solutions for constructing and operating an HPC system - from silicon to applications. Important Dates ============================= Submission Deadline: 2018, Sept 30, 23:59 AOE Conference-Ready Deadline: 2018, October 26 Camera-Ready Deadline: 2018, Nov 2 Topics of Interest ============================= We invite the community to submit both papers and proposals for "lightning demos." The demo session will provide attendees the opportunity to give short (5-min) demos of software or hardware technology that could forward the construction of open source HPC systems. The lightning demo sessions may be extended time permitting. We solicit papers & demos according to (but not limited to) four technical tracks as follows: - Hardware -- ISA & processors -- System and network interconnects -- Simulation & emulation -- Early hardware evaluations - Software -- System software & OS -- Programming models, tools & tool chains -- Numerical solvers -- Application infrastructures - Collaboration -- Co-design projects and methods -- Cross-disciplinary projects -- International collaborations - Lightning Demo -- Prototype hardware (FPGA or ASIC) demonstrations -- Application demonstrations -- Live benchmarking or performance analysis demos Conference Website ============================= More information regarding the program committee and general scope of the workshop can be found below: http://www.opensuco.community Submission Process ============================= Papers must be formatted according to the SC18 style guidelines. This requires adherence to the standard IEEE conference format. Submissions can be made via the SC18 Linklings submission page (select the SC18 OpenSuCo Workshop) Paper Formatting: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submission Link: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/