2nd International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators (P^3MA)
Frankfurt, Germany
June 22, 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS
High-level programming models aim to provide scientific applications a path onto HPC platforms with minimal loss of portability or programmer productivity. Emerging approaches include Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), C++ metaprogramming, directives, and runtime APIs. Using these, developers can incrementally port their codes to heterogeneous systems, sometimes with minimal code changes. Although these approaches attempt to introduce abstraction without performance penalty, programming challenges remain, with their designs, implementations, and ease-of-use on rapidly evolving hardware and diverse memory subsystems.
Programming approaches to address these concerns are continuously being developed within standards committees for C++, OpenCL, OpenMP, OpenACC, and various DSLs. This workshop is designed to assess improved features of programming models (including but not limited to directives-based and C++ library-based programming models), their implementations, and experiences with their deployment in HPC applications.
The workshop provides a forum bringing together researchers and developers to examine heterogeneous computing and how it has been evolving across an increasingly diverse set of accelerated architectures. Including an invited opening keynote address and a closing Q&A panel with all presenters, this workshop will provide perspectives from current research and a chance for attendees to actively participate in this quickly changing and growing area of HPC research.
Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to):
- Experience porting applications using high-level models focused on performance portability and productivity
- Hybrid heterogeneous or many-core programming with models such as threading, message passing, and PGAS
- Asynchronous task and event driven APIs and execution/scheduling
- Performance-portable scientific libraries for heterogeneous systems
- Experiences in implementing compilers for performance portable programming on current and emerging architectures
- Low level communications APIs or runtimes that support accelerator architectures
- Extensions to programming models needed to support multiple memory hierarchies and accelerators
- Performance modeling and evaluation tools
- Power/energy studies
- Auto-tuning or optimization strategies
- Benchmarks and validation suites
Papers Submission Guidelines:
All submitted manuscripts will be peer reviewed. The review process is not double blind, i.e., authors will be known to reviewers. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and
relevance to the conference scope. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference, workshop or journal.
After the reviewing process, the accepted papers will be published in the collected ISC Workshop Proceedings via Springer Publishing.
Important Deadlines:
Paper Submission Deadline: April 15, 2017
Paper Acceptance Notification:
May 14, 2017
Camera Ready Paper: June 03, 2017
Workshop: June 23rd, 2017
Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=p3ma17
All submitted manuscripts will be peer reviewed. The review process is not double blind, i.e., authors will be known to reviewers. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference, workshop or journal.
After the reviewing process, the accepted papers will be published in the [Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)](http://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs) volumes.
We only accept paper submissions which are formatted correctly in [LNCS style](http://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer's website. Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process.
Papers submissions are required to be within 18 pages in the above mentioned LNCS style. This includes all figures and references.
The submissions are "single-blind", i.e. submissions are allowed to include the author names.