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The 2015 International Workshop on
Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS-2015)
<a href="http://ft.ornl.gov/discs-2015/">http://ft.ornl.gov/discs-2015/</a>
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Hilton Austin Hotel, Austin TX, USA
Held in conjunction with SC15: The International Conference for High
Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC, <a href="http://sighpc.org">http://sighpc.org</a>
CALL FOR PAPERS
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* Scope of the Workshop *
The Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS) workshop series
facilitates dialogue about research aimed at the intersection of data
intensive computing and traditional high performance computing (HPC).
Traditional HPC systems were designed from a compute-centric perspective,
with an emphasis on high floating-point performance. As scientific and
analytics applications become more data intensive, there is a need to
rethink HPC system architectures, programming models, runtime systems,
and tools with a focus on data intensive computing. Industry approaches
supporting data intensive applications have been highly successful,
leading many in the HPC community to explore ways to apply them.
Conversely, the HPC community's expertise in designing, deploying, and
using high performance systems is attractive to those in industry.
DISCS-2015 will feature a keynote address and presentation of
peer-reviewed full and short research papers, with ample opportunity
for researchers and developers to discuss recent results and the future
challenges of running data intensive applications on traditional HPC
systems and latest data-centric computing systems.
* Important Dates *
Paper Submission: August 21, 2015
Author Notification: September 25, 2015
Camera-Ready Paper Submission: October 10, 2015
Workshop Date: November 15, 2015
* Topics of Interest *
Topics for DISCS-2015 include, but not limited to:
* HPC system architectures for data intensive applications
o Data-centric system architectures
o I/O systems and architectures
o System area networks
o Power efficient systems
* Programming models supporting data intensive applications
o Data-centric programming models
o MPI/GAS/PGAS extensions for data intensive applications
o Non-traditional programming languages/methodologies
* Runtime systems supporting data intensive applications
o Intranode, Internode and Inter-System Communication
o Data compression and de-duplication
o Caching and prefetching
o Reliability and fault tolerance
o Data integrity and consistency
* Productivity tools supporting data intensive applications
o Data analytic tools
o Tracing and trace analysis tools
o Data mining and knowledge discovery tools
o Data visualization techniques and tools
o Computational, mathematical and statistical techniques and
tools supporting such techniques
* Submission Instructions *
Submissions should be unpublished work and in PDF format on US
Letter sized paper (8.5"x11") with not more than 8 pages (all
inclusive) formatted according to the double-column format of
the ACM SIG Proceedings “Option 1: LaTeX2e – Strict Adherence
to SIGS style” template. Margins and fonts should not be modified
from this style. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. See
<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=discs2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=discs2015</a> for details.
* Keynote *
Irene M. Qualters will deliver the keynote address for DISCS-2015.
Ms. Qualters is the Division Director of Advanced Cyber-infrastructure
for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and has extensive
experience guiding NSF’s national computing infrastructure.
Before coming to the NSF, she had a 30-year career in industry,
working on compilers, operating systems, and file systems.
* Journal Special Issue *
The authors of papers presented in the DISCS-2015 workshop will be
invited to extend their manuscripts to be considered for a special
issue guest of Parallel Computing: Systems & Applications, guest
edited by the DISCS-2015 workshop chairs. Details regarding the
journal special issue and important submission dates will be
available to authors of accepted papers after the workshop.
* Workshop Registration *
Registration for DISCS-2015 and all other SC15 workshops is handled
through the SC15 registration system. Attendees can register for
access to SC15 workshops independent of the SC15 Technical Program, or
can add workshop registration to their Technical Program registration
at a reduced rate. All DISCS-2015 attendees, including presenters,
are required to have a valid SC15 workshop registration.
Please visit the SC15 Registration Page for more information and to
register for SC15 workshops.
* Organizers *
GENERAL CHAIR
Philip Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Weikuan Yu, Florida State University
Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
Michael Kluge, TU Dresden
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Jianhui Yue, Auburn University
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Michael Brim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pietro Cicotti, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Shuibing He, Illinois Institute of Technology
Mitch Horton, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University
Dries Kimpe, KCG Holdings, Inc
Michael Kluge, TU Dresden
Quincey Koziol, The HDF Group
Joshua Ladd, Mellanox
Michael Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Leidel, Texas Tech University
Zhuo Liu, Yahoo
Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories
Sarp Oral, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh
Seung-Woo Son, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Jian Tan, Alibaba
Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory
Zhiqi Tao, Intel Corporation
Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame
Yandong Wang, IBM
Bin Wang, Auburn University
Belle Xiang, Huawei
Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University
Pengcheng Xiong, Horton Networks
Cong Xu, Intel
Peixiang Zhao, Florida State University
Fang Zheng, IBM
STEERING COMMITTEE
Yong Chen, Chair, Texas Tech University
William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology
Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory</pre></div>