Terascale Performance Analysis Workshop issues call for papers

International Conference on Computational Science

The Terascale Performance Analysis Workshop will be held 2–4 June 2003 in Melbourne, Australia, in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2003). The workshop has issued a call for papers (below).

According to John Towns, one of the workshop organizers from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, "We believe NCAR staff and users might be relevant sources to make contributions related to their current work; this would certainly enhance the quality of the meeting, and would give us an opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences on these issues more directly."

Deadline for paper submission is 10 January 2003.

Scope of the workshop

Terascale systems, composed of hundreds or thousands of processors, complex interconnection networks, and large numbers of storage devices, pose daunting problems for performance instrumentation, analysis, and optimization. This workshop will explore approaches to application and system measurement, performance diagnosis, and model construction. Those approaches include tools or methodologies that advance the current state of the art on how to achieve significant performance levels for scientific applications on current terascale and future petascale systems. Hardware performance measurements, instrumented libraries, and schemes for automatic adaptation to changing system behavior will also be explored.

Call for papers

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Application performance measurement
• Case studies in scaling applications to 1000+ processors
• Measurement techniques applicable to large systems
• Performance diagnosis and code tuning
• Scalable performance models
• Techniques to achieve scaling in real applications
• Tools for efficient performance assessment
• Use of hardware performance counters
• Performance data reduction techniques
• Instrumented libraries and utilities
• Performance extrapolation and prediction
• Automatic performance adaptation
• Fault tolerance and checkpoint/restart strategies

Submissions are invited for work in these areas not published previously. Every submission will be peer-reviewed. Submissions should be in PDF or Postscript formats, and should not exceed ten printed pages in length, including all sections. All submissions should be sent by email to cmendes@cs.uiuc.edu in a note under the subject iccs03-terascale. In this note, please specify also the name and email of the major contact author and the presenting author.

Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop and will be published, with other ICCS 2003 papers, in a special edition of Springer Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The final version of accepted papers should conform to the LNCS guidelines.

Important dates

• Paper submission deadline: 10 January 2003 (No extensions)
• Author notification: 31 January 2003
• Final paper due: 14 February 2003
  

For more information

• ICCS 2003: http://www.science.uva.nl/events/ICCS2003

Workshop organizers

• Dan Reed (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
• Celso Mendes (University of Illinois, Dep. Computer Science)
• Radha Nandkumar (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
• Rob Pennington (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
• John Towns (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)

Contact information

Daniel A. Reed, reed@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
605 East Springfield Avenue
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-244-0078

Celso L. Mendes, cmendes@cs.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois Department of Computer Science
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
217-244-9234