ExaComm 2017

Welcome to ExaComm 2017

Extreme Scale computing in HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds are marked by multiple-levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity ranging from the compute units (many-core CPUs, GPUs, APUs etc) to storage devices (NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics etc) to the network interconnects (InfiniBand, High-Speed Ethernet, Omni-Path etc). Owing to the plethora of heterogeneous communication paths with different cost models expected to be present in extreme scale systems, data movement is seen as the soul of different challenges for exascale computing. On the other hand, advances in networking technologies such as NoCs (like NVLink and Stormlake), RDMA enabled networks and the likes are constantly pushing the envelope of research in the field of novel communication and computing architectures for extreme scale computing. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry and national laboratories who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme scale architectures. The objectives of this workshop will be to share the experiences of the members of this community and to learn the opportunities and challenges in the design trends for exascale communication architectures.

ExaComm 2017 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to:

Scalable communication protocols
High performance networks
Runtime/middleware designs
Impact of high performance networks on Deep Learning / Machine Learning
Impact of high performance networks on Big Data
Novel hardware/software co-design
High performance communication solutions for accelerator based computing
Power-aware techniques and designs
Performance evaluations
Quality of Service (QoS)
Resource virtualization and SR-IOV

Best Paper Award

Mellanox has generously offered to sponsor the Best Paper Award. This award will be given to the author(s) of the paper selected by the Technical Program Committee and the Program Chairs. The award will be determined from viewpoints of the technical and scientific merits, impact on the science and engineering of the research work and the clarity of presentation of the research contents in the paper.

Organizing Committee

Program Chairs

Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University

Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University

Program Committee

Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories

Hans Eberle, NVIDIA

Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spain

Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech

Brice Goglin, INRIA, France

Dror Goldenberg, Mellanox Technologies

R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Ryan Grant, Sandia National Laboratories

Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Sven Karlsson, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Takeshi Nanri, University of Kyushu, Japan

Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Antonio Pena, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain

Sebastien Rumley, Columbia University

Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

John M. Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Tor Skeie, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Sayantan Sur, Intel

Xin Yuan, Florida State University

Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Registration

The workshop does not have a separate registration site. All attendees need to use the registration system provided by ISC'17. Please remember to select the workshop option when registering. Details about registration can be found on the main conference website.

Travel and Stay

Please check the main conference website.