ExaMPI14: Workshop on Exascale MPI 2014 https://www.pdc.kth.se/exampi14 New Orleans, LA November 17, 2014 Held in conjunction with SC14 (http://sc14.supercomputing.org) Held in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC (http://www.sighpc.org) The MPI design and its main implementations have proved surprisingly scalable. MPI has been robust, and been able to evolve, without fundamentally changing the model and specification. For this and many other reasons MPI is currently the de-facto standard for HPC systems and applications. However, there is a need for re-examination of the message-passing model for extreme-scale systems characterized by asymptotically decreasing local memory and highly localized communication networks. Likewise, there is a need for exploring new innovative and potentially disruptive concepts and algorithms partially to explore other roads than those taken by the MPI 3.0 standard. The aim of workshop is to bring together developers and researchers to present and discuss innovative algorithms and concepts in the Message Passing programming model and to create a forum for open and potentially controversial discussions on the future of MPI in the exascale era. Topics of interest (but are not limited to) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Development of scalable Message Passing collective operations. * Communication topology mapping interfaces and algorithms. * Innovative algorithms for scheduling/routing to avoid network congestion. * Integrated use of structured data layout descriptors. * One-sided communication models and RDMA-based MPI. * MPI and threading. * Interoperability of Message Passing and PGAS models. * Integration of task-parallel models into Message Passing models. * Fault tolerance in MPI. * MPI I/O. Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two submission categories: - Regular research paper: submission of full paper. - Hot topic abstract: submission of an extended abstract. These submissions target work-in-progress research on potentially controversial topics in Message Passing. We are using EasyChair to manage submissions. The link to submit papers will be added to the conference home page in the near future. All manuscripts will be reviewed. The proceedings (regular research paper) will be archived in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore, by virtue of SIGHPC. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper submission: September 5, 2014 * Acceptance notification: September 22, 2014 * Final papers due: October 6, 2014 Organizers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Jesper Larsson Träff, TU Wien Daniel Holmes, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Mark Bull, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Masamichi Takagi, NEC Corporation in Japan Lorna Smith, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Mark Parsons, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Program Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ewing Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University Jesper Larsson Träff, TU Wien Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zürich Hans-Christian Hoppe, Intel Daniel Holmes, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Mark Bull, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Masamichi Takagi, NEC Corporation in Japan Lorna Smith, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Mark Parsons, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Contact --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please contact Stefano Markidis at markidis at kth.se