Call for Presentations - IXPUG Spring Mtg in Europe

IXPUG is pleased to announce our Spring European Meeting, to be hosted by CINECA, March 5-7, 2018

Call for Presentations: IXPUG welcomes submissions on innovative work from KNL users in academia, industry and government labs, describing original discoveries and experiences that will promote and prescribe efficient use of many-core and multicore systems. The authors of the best scored abstracts and draft presentations will be selected for a full 30 minute technical lecture; others may be offered an opportunity to present shorter 10-15 minute Lightning Talks.

Submission Guidelines: The abstract submission process opened on January 3, 2018 and will close on January 31, 2018. All submitters must upload presentations to the IXPUG EasyChair site. The final presentations are due on March 2, 2018 and the content should reflect the overall intent outlined in the abstract submission. Please be sure to focus your content on the approach that was taken, obstacles encountered, solutions developed and ultimate results. Feel free to include application results on multi-node configurations addressing KNL-specific features (e.g. use of MCDRAM)/performance tools exploitation will be prioritized.  You may wish to refer to presentations from previous events for appropriate elements.

Topics of interest are (but not limited to):

• Vectorization: Data layout for efficient SIMD operations, SIMD directives and operations

• Memory: Data layout in memory for efficient access and caching (data preconditioning), access latency concerns (prefetch, streams, costs for MCDRAM), partitioning of DDR and MCDRAM for applications (memory policies)

• Communication: including early experiences with Omni-Path

• Thread and Process Management: Process and thread affinity issues, SMT (simultaneous multi-threading, in core), balancing processes and threads, nested threading (per tile or core)

• Multi-node Application Experience: especially on large-scale KNL systems

• Programming Models: OpenMP 4.x, hStreams, MPI 3.0, hybrid programming (e,g, MPI/OpenMP,), others

• Algorithms and Methods: including scalable and vectorizable algorithms
• Software Environments and Tools

• Benchmarking & Profiling Tools

• Visualization development

Important dates:

• Abstract submissions open: January 3, 2018

• Abstracts due: January 31, 2018 (AoE)

• Presenters notified: Week of February 12

• Final presentations due: March 2, 2018

Logistics:

Hotel and venue information to be provided soon!