Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems (ScalA)


held in conjunction with

SC13: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis


in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC


November 18, 2013, Denver, CO, USA


https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2013/


Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points.

Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers not exceeding 8 letter size (8.5x11) pages including figures, tables, and references using the ACM SIGS format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Reference style files are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates#aL1.

All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information. Papers should be submitted electronically at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala20130.

Full papers will be published with the SC 2013 workshop proceedings in the ACM digital library. Selected papers will be invited for an extended version in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (JoCS).

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ACM Digital Library: Proceedings of the Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems (available on November 18, 2013)