HPC Systems Professionals Workshop (HPCSYSPROS19) Call For Papers, Artifacts, and Lightning Talks ---------------
HPCSYSPROS19 is held in conjunction with SC19: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. http://sighpc-syspros.org/workshops/2019/ The workshop this year will be November 22nd (FRIDAY) from 9am to 12:30am. Please keep that in mind when making travel arrangements. Submission Deadline - August 23 (NO EXTENSIONS) Supercomputing systems present complex challenges to personnel who design, deploy and maintain them. Standing up these systems and keeping them running require novel solutions that are unique to high performance computing. The success of any supercomputing center depends on stable and reliable systems, and HPC Systems Professionals are crucial to that success. The Fourth Annual HPC Systems Professionals Workshop will bring together systems administrators, systems architects, and systems analysts in order to share best practices, discuss cutting-edge technologies, and advance the state-of-the-practice for HPC systems. This CFP requests that participants submit either papers, slide presentations, or 5-minute Lightning Talk proposals along with reproducible artifacts (code segments, test suites, configuration management templates) which can be made available to the community for use. Submissions website: HPCSYSPROS 2019 Submissions Topics of Interest --------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Cluster, configuration, or software management * Performance tuning/Benchmarking * Resource manager and job scheduler configuration * Monitoring/Mean-time-to-failure/ROI/Resource utilization * Virtualization/Clouds * Designing and troubleshooting HPC interconnects * Designing and maintaining HPC storage solutions * Cybersecurity and data protection * Cluster storage All topics are expected to have an emphasis on HPC. Submission Information --------------- Authors are invited to submit original, high-quality papers, presentations, and artifacts with an emphasis on solutions that can be implemented by other members of the HPC systems community. All submissions should be in PDF format. Papers should be between 6 and 8 pages including tables, figures and appendices, but excluding references. Slide decks should consist of less than 30 slides. Lightning Talks should be submitted as a 1-2 paragraph abstract for a talk of approximately 5 minutes in length. Artifact descriptions should be described in 1-2 pages in length. All submissions should be formatted according to the SC Proceedings template. Per SC policy, margins and font sizes should not be modified. Papers submitted with an artifact are required to have an appended artifact descriptor as a part of the requirements for reproducibility. Some examples of artifacts are listed below. * Architecture Descriptions should include an interesting network, storage or system architecture, or a hybrid thereof at the data-center level. It should be documented by multiple architecture diagrams and a four page description of the architecture in the provided template. * Small Middleware or Systems Software should include an artifact of code, such as a BASH or Python Script. Additionally, there should be strong documentation that makes the artifact usable by the community. This documentation should be written in Markdown, and a two page abstract in the SC proceedings format is required. * System Configuration and Configuration Management should include configuration or configuration management, and/or the interactions between multiple configured applications. Examples of this might be a puppet module, a config file used in a unique way, or more likely, a group of config files and configuration management bundled together. Strong documentation for reproducing the artifact, as well as a two page abstract in the SC proceedings format, is required. This year we will once again have two review stages before we select the program material. During the first stage, all papers, artifacts, and talks will get reviewed and scored but there will be no decisions for inclusion in the program. The authors will then have three weeks to update their submission based on provided feedback, and resubmit. The second round will be reviewed and scored, and the highest-scoring papers, artifacts, and talks will be invited to be included within the workshop program. Proposals for different types of artifacts other than those listed above will also be accepted. Additionally, hybrids of these types of artifacts are acceptable. If you have a relevant, high-quality artifact, which has an emphasis on reproducibility and implementation, and is not included in the types above, please propose it to the committee (contact info below) . If the committee agrees, the CFP will be amended to reflect the new artifact type and its requirements. The up-to-date CFP will always be available at: HPCSYSPROS CFP 2019 All papers, abstracts and descriptions should be formatted according to the IEEE Conference Proceedings template and are required to include a modified reproducibility appendix from SC19. All submissions should be submitted electronically through the SC19 linklings instance (link included at the bottom). Please submit the main document (paper or abstract) in PDF form, as well as an accompanying zip (or gzip) file. All reviews and comments will be available on http://submissions.supercomputing.org. All accepted papers and artifacts will be published on GitHub and archived Important Dates -------------------- Submissions Open: NOW Submissions Closed: August 23rd (NO EXTENSIONS) First round reviews Sent and Resubmission Open: September 6th Resubmission Closed: September 20th Notifications of Papers and Accepted Artifacts: October 4th Final Abstracts for Program: October 10th Workshop Date: November 22nd Workshop Information -------------------- Committee Contact: cont...@hpcsyspros.org Website: http://hpcsyspros.org Updated CFP: HPCSYSPROS CFP 2019 Submission Site: HPCSYSPROS 2019 Submission -- John Blaas HPCSYSPROS19 Program Chair _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
