Charm++ parallel programming system

[Akhil langer <akhilanger AT gmail.com>]

First International Workshop on Communication Optimizations in High Performance Computing (COMHPC) 

https://software.intel.com/en-us/event/comhpc/2016/overview

In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC

 

Friday, November 18, 2016

co-located with

SC16: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

November 13-18, 2016

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Call for Papers: 

As HPC applications scale to large supercomputing systems, their communication and synchronization need to be optimized in order to deliver high performance. In order to achieve this, capabilities of modern network interconnect and parallel runtime systems need to be advanced and the existing ones to be leveraged optimally. The workshop will bring together researchers and developers to present and discuss work on optimizing communication and synchronization in HPC applications. This includes state-of-the-art methodological and algorithmic advances in topology-aware or topology-oblivious blocking and non-blocking collective algorithms, offloading of communication to network interface cards, topology aware process mappings for minimizing communication overhead on different network topologies such as dragonfly, high-dimensional torus networks, fat trees, optimizations for persistent communication patterns, studies and solutions for inter-job network interference, overlapping of communication with computation, optimizing communication overhead in the presence of process imbalance, GPU-GPU and GPU-CPU communication. The workshop also aims at bringing researchers together to foster discussion, collaboration and ideas for optimizing communication and synchronization that drive design of future peta/exa-scale systems and of HPC applications. In addition, we expect that researchers and others looking for research directions in this area will get up-to-date with the state of the art so that they can drive their research in a manner that will impact the future of communication methods in high performance computing.

 

 

Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to): 

Blocking and non-blocking collective operations

Topology-aware collective algorithms and process mappings

Neighborhood collective optimizations

Communication offloading design and optimizations (such as offloaded triggered operations)

Modeling and simulation of traffic patterns (including collectives) for generic/specific network topologies

Optimizations for persistent communication patterns

Inter-job network interference

Computation-communication overlap in HPC applications

Communication optimization in presence of process imbalance

Static/runtime tuning of collective operations

Scalable communication endpoints for many-core architectures

Communication optimizations on Peta/Exa-scale systems, heterogeneous systems, and GPUs

Network congestion studies and mitigation methods

Machine learning to optimize communication

Communication aspects of GPGPU

Communication aspects of Graph Applications

Communication aspects of Fault Tolerance 

 

 

Important Deadlines:

Submission deadline:              August 19, 2016 AOE

Notification of Acceptance:      September 25, 2016

Camera Ready copy:               October 5, 2016

Workshop Dates:                     November 18, 2016

 

 

Paper Submission Guidelines:

Papers must follow the ACM format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Submissions are limited to up to 10 pages. We also encourage submission of work-in-progress and late-breaking ideas that illustrate promising results. The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comhpc2016. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. Papers will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee for novelty, scientific merit, technical strength, originality, quality of presentation and scope of the workshop. It is also expected that at least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by SIGHPC and made available in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore.

 

 

Organizing Committee:

Akhil Langer (Intel, USA)
Maria Garzaran (Intel, USA)

Gengbin Zheng (Intel, USA)
Malek Musleh (Intel, USA)
Daniel Faraj (Intel, USA)
Michael Chuvelev (Intel, Russia)

 

 

Program Committee:

Ahmad Afsahi (Queen’s University, Canada)

George Almasi (IBM, USA)

Abhinav Bhatele (LLNL, USA)

Bill Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Manish Gupta (Xerox Research Center, India)

Ram Huggahalli (Intel, USA)

Nikhil Jain (LLNL, USA)

David Lowenthal (University of Arizona, USA)

Vijay Pai (Google, USA)

D. K. Panda (Ohio State University, USA)

Sameh Sharkawi (IBM, USA)

Yogish Sabharwal (IBM, India)

Martin Schulz (LLNL, USA)

Bronis Supinski (LLNL, USA)

Sayantan Sur (Intel, USA)

Michela Taufer (University of Delaware, USA)

Keith Underwood (Intel, USA)

Abhinav Vishnu (PNNL, USA)

Alan Wagner (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Xin Yuan (Florida State University, USA)

 

 

 

Contact:  

Please email comhpc.org AT gmail.com for any questions.

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