Call for Papers: Workshop on Representative Applications (WRAp) - In Conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2015

First International Workshop on Representative Applications (WRAp 2015)
                    http://wrap-workshop.github.io/

            to be held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2015
                http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ieeecluster2015/

               Paper submission deadline: 11th May 2015
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The First International Workshop on Representative Applications is
concerned with the development and use of representative applications
(mini-applications or proxies) for all aspects of high-performance
computing.

The challenges posed by future systems: new architectures, programming
models, and machine scales; mean that representative applications as an
essential tool in the path towards exascale. These applications can be
used for acceptance testing, benchmarking, optimization evaluation, and
also investigating the performance of new architectures or programming
models. However, the development of such representative applications
must ensure they maintain some correspondence with their parent
application, so requires methods and tools for identifying the
performance critical aspects of a given code, or class of codes, and
also for verifying that the proxy effectively models the the target
behavior.

The main aim of WRAp is to provide a venue in which the wide range of
disciplines involved in creating and using representative applications
can share important discoveries and lessons learned from these
applications.

Topics of Interest:
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- Programming model and language explorations
- Design and generation of representative applications
- New representative applications
- Verification and validation of representative applications
- Optimizations, including:
  - algorithmic improvements, and
  - code optimization
- Scalability studies
- Hardware studies
- Case-studies of representative applications impacting their parent
  code

Work which examines similar topics will also be considered for inclusion
in the workshop.

Dates:
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- Abstract submission: 4 May 2015
- Paper submission: 11 May 2015
- Author notification: 3 July 2015
- Camera-ready submission: 1 August 2015
- Conference: 8th - 11th September, 2015

Journal Special Issue:
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised manuscripts for
inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of High-Performance
Computing Applications [http://hpc.sagepub.com/].

Submission Instructions:
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Authors are invited to submit full papers with unpublished, original work of
not more than 10 pages of double column text using single spaced fonts on
pages of 8.5 x 11 inches (this limit includes all figures, content etc but
does not include references). All papers should be formatted to use the IEEE
conference proceedings template and guidelines available here:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

All accepted papers (subject to post-review revisions) will be published in
the IEEE CLUSTER Conference Proceedings.

Papers should be submitted using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wrap2015


Chairs:
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- Tom Scogland, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- David Beckingsale, University of Warwick

Steering Committee:
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- Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Program Committee:
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-  Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
-  Robert Bird, University of Warwick
-  Shuai Che, AMD
-  Mayank Daga, AMD
-  Wayne Gaudin, AWE
-  Si Hammond, Sandia National Lab
-  Andy Herdman, AWE
-  Mike Heroux, Sandia National Lab
-  Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft
-  Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick
-  Christoph Junghans, Los Alamos National Laboratory
-  Kalyan Kumaran, Argonne National Lab
-  Seyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
-  Paul Lin, Sandia
-  John Pennycook, Intel
-  Bob Robey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
-  Hao Wang, Virginia Tech

Any questions? Please contact us at: wrap-organizers@lists.llnl.gov
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