[mpiwg-sessions] FW: [sc-workshop-attendee-cfp] Workshop on Exascale MPI 2018 (ExaMPI), held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2018 (SC18), Dallas, TX

[Pritchard Jr., Howard]

we’re controversial - so maybe good for hot topic abstract?

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Howard Pritchard

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On 7/30/18, 1:18 PM, "sc-workshop-attendee-cfp on behalf of Dosanjh,
Matthew" <sc-workshop-attendee-cfp-bounces at group.supercomputing.org on
behalf of mdosanj at sandia.gov> wrote:

>From: Dosanjh, Matthew
>Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 11:19 AM
>To: hpc-announce at mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: CFP:  Workshop on Exascale MPI 2018 (ExaMPI), held in
>conjunction with Supercomputing 2018 (SC18), Dallas, TX
>
>ExaMPI18 - Workshop on Exascale MPI 2018
>Sunday November 11th, 2018
>Dallas, TX, USA
>https://sites.google.com/site/exampiworkshop2018
>
>Held in conjunction with SC18:  The International Conference
>for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
>
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>
>The MPI standard and its implementations have proved surprisingly
>scalable. Issues that hampered scalability have been addressed in the MPI
>2.1 – 2.2 definition process, and continued into MPI 3.0 and 3.1. Thus
>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 recently released MPI 3.1 standard.
>The aim of workshop is to bring together developers and researchers to
>present and discuss innovative algorithms and concepts in Message Passing
>programming models, in particular related to MPI. This year’s theme is on
>concurrency in MPI and underlying networks and we especially encourage
>submissions aligned with this theme.
>
>Topics of interest (but are not limited to)
>
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>* 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 multi-threading and threading requirements from OSes.
>
>* 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
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>There are two submission categories:
>
>* Regular research paper: submission of full paper. Regular paper
>submissions are limited to 10 single-space pages (including figures,
>tables
>and references) using a 10-point on 8.5x11-inch pages (US Letter).
>
>Templates can be found at:
>https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Instructions for
>preparing regular papers for the proceedings will be emailed to authors
>of accepted papers.
>
>* Hot topic abstract: submission of an extended abstract. These
>submissions target work-in-progress research on potentially controversial
>topics in Message-Passing. Hot topic extended abstracts are limited to 3
>single-space pages:
>https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Accepted hot topic
>extended abstracts will be published only on the ExaMPI15 website.
>
>Regular Papers and extended abstracts should be submitted electronically
>at: https://tinyurl.com/ExaMPI2018
>
>This year, ExaMPI has streamlined the paper review and submission
>process. Submissions will be accepted via the regular SC submission
>system and reviews will be available via that system. For publication of
>the papers, accepted papers from the SC submission system will be invited
>to submit the papers that were reviewed in the conference review system
>to a special issue of the Journal of Concurrency and Computation:
>Practice and Experience. This will allow for quick publication in the
>journal of accepted papers that only require minor revisions in the
>journal process, while some papers may be shepherded with major revisions
>overseen using the journal submission process.
>
>Accepted papers at ExaMPI will only be published in the journal (CCPE),
>not the workshop proceedings, so there is no need for a 30% difference
>between the submitted paper and the journal submission.
>
>Important dates
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>Paper Submissions close: October 9th
>Paper Notification: October 23rd
>Papers submitted to Journal: November 9th
>Final notification from Journal: December 7th
>Final camera ready version: December 14th
>
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