Hi!
If you're doing cool things in the area of "Accelerator Programming using
Directives" or related things, please consider submitting a paper. (I'm
on the Program Committee again.)
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| Sixth Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives (WACCPD 2019)
| (in conjunction with SC19)
| November 18, 2019 - https://waccpd.org
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| Call for Papers
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| The ever-increasing heterogeneity in supercomputing applications has given
rise to complex compute node architectures offering multiple, heterogeneous
levels of massive parallelism. As a result, the 'X' in MPI+X demands more
focus. Exploiting the maximum available parallelism out of such systems
necessitates sophisticated programming approaches that can provide scalable as
well as portable solutions without compromising on performance. A programmer's
expectation from the scientific community is to deliver solutions that would
allow maintenance of a single code base whenever possible avoiding duplicate
effort.
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| Raising the abstraction of the code is one of the effective methodologies to
reduce the burden on the programmer while improving productivity. Software
abstraction-based programming models, such as OpenMP and OpenACC, have been
serving this purpose over the past several years as the compiler technology
steadily improves. These programming models address the 'X' component by
providing programmers with high-level directive-based approaches to accelerate
and port scientific applications to heterogeneous platforms.
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| Recent architectural trends indicate a heavy reliance of future Exascale
machines on accelerators for performance. Toward this end, the workshop will
highlight the improvements over state-of-art through the accepted papers and
prompt discussion through keynote/panel that draws the community's attention to
key areas that will facilitate the transition to accelerator-based high-
performance computing (HPC). The workshop aims to showcase all aspects of
heterogeneous systems discussing innovative high-level language features,
lessons learned while using directives to migrate scientific legacy code to
parallel processors, compilation and runtime scheduling techniques among others.
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| WACCPD2019 will be co-located with SC19, Denver. In the past five years of
this workshop, WACCPD has been one of the major forums at SC to bring together
programming model users, developers, and tools community to share knowledge and
experiences to tackle emerging complex parallel computing systems.
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| Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to)
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| * Programming experiences porting applications in any scientific domain
| * Compiler and runtime support for current and emerging architectures
| (e.g. heterogeneous architectures, low-power processors)
| * Experiences in implementing compilers for accelerator directives on
| newer architectures
| * Language-based extensions and its prototype for directive-based
| programming models
| * Abstract handling of complex/heterogeneous memory hierarchies
| * Extensions to and shortcomings of current directives for heterogeneous
systems
| * Comparisons against lower or higher-level abstractions
| * Application performance evaluation, validation, and lessons learned
| * Modeling, verification and performance analysis tools
| * Auto-tuning and optimization strategies
| * Parallel computing using hybrid programming paradigms (e.g. MPI,
| OpenMP, OpenACC, OpenSHMEM)
| * Asynchronous execution and scheduling (task-based approaches)
| * Scientific libraries interoperability with directive-based models
| * Power/energy studies and solutions targeting accelerators or
| heterogeneous systems
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| Workshop Important Deadlines
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| Submission Deadline: August 22, 2019 AOE
| Author notification: September 30, 2019
| Workshop Ready Deadline: October 10, 2019 AOE
| Camera Ready papers due: December 10, 2019 AoE
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| Submission Process & Proceedings
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| WACCPD papers will be peer-reviewed and selected for presentation at the
workshop. The paper presented will be published as post-proceedings in Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) with Springer. Papers should be submitted
electronically via the SC19 Submission Page
(https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SC19WorkshopWACCPDSubmission&site=sc19)
and follow the Springer LNCS format. Submissions are limited to 20 pages. The
20-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include
references, for which there is no page limit. Authors are encouraged to provide
an artifact appendix similar to SC19's reproducibility initiative. If an
Artifact Description (AD) is provided, the
