The 2012 International Supercomputing Conference Research Paper and Tutorial Committees are now accepting full papers and tutorial proposals for ISC´12 in Europe. The ISC´12 Call for Papers is supported by the IEEE Germany Section.
The ISC´12 conference and exhibition, the 27th in the ISC series, will take place June 17 – 21, 2012, and is expected to draw more than 2,400 academic and industry attendees and 160 exhibitors representing high-performance computing, networking and storage to Hamburg, Germany.
High-quality research papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental and industry research and development are sought in the following areas:
Architectures (multicore/manycore systems, heterogeneous systems, network technology and programming models)
Algorithms and Analysis (scalability on future architectures, performance evaluation and tuning)
Large-Scale Simulations (coupled simulations, industrial simulations and data visualization)
Future Trends (Exascale HPC, HPC in the Cloud)
Storage and Data (file systems and tape libraries, data intensive applications and databases)
Software Engineering in HPC (application of methods, surveys)
Supercomputing Facility (batch job management, job mix and system utilization and monitoring and administration tools)
A totally new topic next year will be the Scalable Applications: 50k+ (ISC Research thrust). The Research Paper committee encourages scientists to submit results which demonstrate scaling of an application to more than 50,000 cores.
ISC Awards Program
Two awards will be given to the most outstanding papers. The German Gauss Center for Supercomputing sponsors the Gauss Award, which will be assigned to the most outstanding paper in the field of scalable supercomputing.
The second award is the PRACE (the Partnership for Advanced Computing) Award which will be awarded to the best scientific paper by a European student or scientist in the following areas – a breakthrough in science achieved with high performance computing resources, algorithms or implementations that achieve significant improvements in scalability and novel approaches to performance evaluation on massively parallel architectures.
The ISC´12 Tutorials are intended as educational events that cover all areas as listed on the Call for Research Papers. However, ISC encourage tutorials of broad applicability rather than those focusing solely on the research in a limited domain or a particular group.
Presenters are encouraged to incorporate hands-on sessions where it is appropriate and provide the attendees with a comprehensive introduction to the topic before moving on to cover specific approaches in more depth.
Other Submission Deadlines
Call for Student Volunteers: Monday, April 2, 2012
Call for Posters: Monday, April 9, 2012
Call for BoFs: Monday, April 9, 2012
Questions about the technical program should be directed to the Conference Program Coordinator, Ms. Heike Walther, at heike.walther@isc-events.com.
After the great success of last year, hpc-ch will again participate at the ISC conference and exhibit with a community booth.
SUNNYVALE, CA. and LUGANO, SWITZERLAND – Dec. 12, 2011 – The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2012. The conference will focus on High-Performance Computing (HPC) education, hands-on and classroom training and overviews of new important HPC developments and trends.
The conference will include comprehensive education for topics such as high-speed interconnects, high-performance and parallel I/O, communication libraries (such as MPI, SHMEM and PGAS), GPU and accelerations, Big Data, high-performance cloud computing, and will include advanced topics and development for upcoming HPC technologies. In addition, attendees will receive hands-on training for topics on clustering, network, troubleshooting, tuning, and optimizations.
“Continuing our successful international conference programs, the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference is expected to uphold our tradition of providing rich educational content, taught from some of the industry´s most recognized luminaries and scientists, that will help HPC users optimize their HPC systems and experience,” said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “We are pleased to collaborate again with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre for this upcoming hands-on technical training and education conference, and will continue to assist and provide resources for industry and community organizations to better leverage HPC system capabilities and improve productivity and efficiency.”
“The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is delighted to continue our collaboration with the HPC Advisory Council,” said Hussein Nasser El-Harake at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre who serves as the Director of the HPC Advisory Council Center of Excellence in Switzerland. “The council continues to be a cornerstone for HPC outreach and education and we are looking forward to providing attendees a very rich and engaging training program that enhances their usage of HPC technologies and platforms.”
Sponsorship opportunities are available today and provide exceptional “budget-conscious” awareness opportunities. Media sponsorship and coverage is being provided by HPC-CH, insideHPC and Scientific Computing World.
George Lake is professor for astrophysics at the University of Zurich (UZH). At his visit to the hpc-ch booth at SC11 we interviewed him about his research activities. George told us that at UZH there are different research groups working on dark matter, large scale structure of the universe and galaxy and clusters of galaxies. Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, a mysterious component we still do not understand but it drives the process of galaxies formation and evolution. The researchers at UZH recently discovered that dark matter is clustered in little lumps that are present even in the disk of our galaxy. Currently they are studying both novel observational approaches to detect these lumps and their theoretical consequences on the process of galaxy and galaxy cluster formation.
For many years George has been involved in supercomputing . He was first one of the leading scientists for a large NASA program, HPCC/ESS (High Performance Computing and Communications for Earth and Space Sciences), then he was chief scientist at the ARSC supercomputing center. The NASA was the one where Tom Sterling initiated the Beowulf cluster project. Originally the Beowulf was a gigaflop workstation. The idea was to create a personal supercomputer setup on your desk. George was the first to say “workstations heck, I’m building a server”.
George also boosted the research and supercomputing environment in Switzerland. The general envornment in Switzerland has very balanced investments. We have a national supercomputing centre in Manno (Ticino) and the university has an own cluster. There are good investments in research groups to develop next generation software to use next generation systems (HP2C initiative). It is a confluence of things that the US is tried to achieve for many years and the Swiss have accomplished.
We were very happy to again welcome Rich Brueckner of insideHPC at the Swiss hpc-ch booth at SC11 after his recent visit at ISC11. We had the discussion shortly before the end of the exhibit. This gave us the opportunity to relax a little bit after three very intensive exhibition days and to have a more philosophical approach to supercomputing and life in general.
We started by discussing the similarities between supercomputers (clusters) and his Java motorcycle he was exposing at his booth (yes, there are similarities). Rich told us about some highlights of the conference like the interactive Earth displayed at the NOAA booth. The discussion then continued to what makes HPC so interesting for us: Are these the latest GPU models or the applications of supercomputing to better understand the world?
Finally we closed the discussion looking at the HPC initiatives in Switzerland (CSCS has been the first center deploying a Cray XK6). Finally we said goodbye until March 2012 in Lugano at the HPC Advisory Workshop.
John Feo is the director of the Center for Adaptive Supercomputer Software (CASS) at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory. John and his team are using a Cray XMT 1 supercomputer since three years to study a large spectrum of applications like graphs algorithms, Dynamic network analysis (DNA), Emerging Subnetwork Patterns, bioinformatics, semantic search, and semantic database development.
The CASS group is also developing compilers and runtime systems to improve the compilation of code and is working on new programming models for highly multithreated machines like the XMT.
For John one important application of the Cray XMT will be in companies like Facebook, Google, or banks doing graphs algorithms, semantic search and knowledge discovery on huge data sets.
In this interview John explains the particularities of developing applications for this new kind of architectures and how his team is supporting users and scientists in porting their code.
