The fourth International Workshop on Extreme Scale Computing APplication Enablement - Modeling and Tools (ESCAPE)

to be held in conjunction with

The 20th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2014)

HsinChu, Taiwan, Dec. 16-19, 2014

Silicon based technology has advanced in the past two decades as Moore's law predicted. A large number of computing cores, complex memory subsystems, and I/O devices are now packed onto modern VLSI chips such that the computational power per unit area has grown tremendously. To deliver petascale performance today, huge amounts of resources are being deployed via interconnected computing units, while programming languages and paradigms are being pushed beyond their initial designs to explore maximal parallel efficiency. As a consequence, work on application enablement has become an extremely challenging task. Furthermore, in the foreseeable future, exa- and higher scale computing systems are expected to incorporate even more massive numbers of multi-core processors and accelerators, such as the Graphics Processing Units (GPU) and co-processors Xeon Phi, which will pose critical challenges for enabling, optimizing and tuning applications on these systems. Therefore, there will be an increasingly urgent need to have efficient performance modeling, tuning, and enablement tools that address such challenges in extreme scale computing. 

The goal of this workshop is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the methodologies, analysis, and software tools, which can enable effective and scalable performance evaluation for extreme scale computing systems. We seek submissions of papers that invent new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues.  In particular, contributions presenting novel, original work in all areas of GPU from hardware abstractions to specific applications in clouds are welcome.

The topics of this workshop are related to methodological aspects as well as practical of the application enablement in extreme scale computing. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

Important Dates

Submission Deadline:

September 9, 2014

Author Notification:

September 23, 2014

Final Manuscript Due:

October, 7 2014

Registration Due:

October 7, 2014

Workshop Date:

December 16-19, 2014

Submission Instructions

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent related developments. The length of the papers should not exceed 6 pages + 2 pages for overlength charges (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, 10-point font), including figures and references. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines.

Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 10 SCI and EI indexed special issues, which will be shared by the IEEE ICPADS 2014 conference and its symposiums and workshops. (Detail)

At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper.

Submission Link: easychair system

Workshop Co-Chairs


I-Hsin Chung

IBM Research, USA


Che-Rung Lee 

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Contact

Please email inquiries concerning ESCAPE 2014 to: Dr. Che-Rung Lee (cherung AT gmail DOT com)