Reinventing HPC

ISC 2020 Research Papers

PLEASE NOTE: The Call for Research Papers is closed!

The ISC research paper sessions provide world-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of high performance computing (HPC), Networking, Storage and AI/Machine Learning.

Chair - Saday Sadayappan

  Research Papers Chair      Saday Sadayappan, University of Utah and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Research Papers Deputy Chair       Brad Chamberlain, CRAY
  Proceedings Chair      Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
  Proceedings Deputy Chair       Hatem Ltaief, KAUST

 

From all Research Papers submitted to the conference, the ISC 2020 Research Papers Committee, which is headed by Prof. Saday Sadayappan, University of Utah and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, with Brad Chamberlain, CRAY, USA, as Deputy Chair, has selected the following Research Papers for presentation at ISC High Performance 2020:

Monday, June 22

Research Paper Award Session

Research Paper Session - Machine Learning / Big Data

Tuesday, June 23

Research Paper Session - Accelerators

Research Paper Session - Architecture

Research Paper Session - Programming / Scheduling for Hybrid Memory Systems

Research Paper Session - Parallel Programming Models

Wednesday, June 24

Research Paper Session - Performance

Research Paper Session - Linear Algebra

Research Paper Session - Fault-Tolerance / Resilience

Research Paper Session - Scalable Applications

 

ISC 2020 Call for Research Papers

PLEASE NOTE: The Call for Research Papers is closed!

Submitted research paper proposals will be reviewed by the ISC 2020 Research Papers Committee, which is headed by Prof. Saday Sadayappan, University of Utah and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, with Brad Chamberlain, CRAY, USA, as Deputy Chair.

The ISC organizers as well as the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing will again sponsor the call for research papers with two awards for outstanding research papers: the Hans Meuer Award and the GCS Award. Each accepted paper will be considered for the awards. 
The Hans Meuer Award and the GCS Award winner will receive a cash prize of 5,000 Euros each.

 

Important Dates

  Full Submission Deadline  closed
  Author Rebuttals January 22 - January 25, 2020
  Notification of Acceptance February 5, 2020
  Camera-Ready Submission April 17, 2020
  Research Paper Sessions June 22 - June 24, 2020
  Final Presentation Slides in PDF due June 26, 2020

 

Areas of Interest

The Research Papers Committee encourages the submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental, and industrial research and development. The ISC submission process will be divided into eight tracks this year.

Architectures, Networks & Infrastructure   Data, Storage & Visualization
  • Future design concepts of HPC systems
  • Multi-core & many-core systems
  • Heterogeneous systems
  • Other paradigms (including data flow computing, FPGAs, etc.)
  • Network technology
  • Domain-specific architectures
  • Memory technologies
  • Trends in the HPC chip market
  • Exascale computing
 
  • From big data to smart data
  • Memory systems for HPC & big data
  • File systems & tape libraries
  • Data-intensive applications
  • Databases
  • Visual analytics
  • In-situ analytics
HPC Applications   HPC Algorithms
  • Highly scalable applications
  • Convergence of simulations & big data
  • Scalability on future architectures
  • Workflow management
  • Coupled simulations
  • Industrial simulations
  • Implementations on GPUs & other accelerators
 
  • Innovative algorithms, discrete or continuous
  • Algorithmic-based fault tolerance
  • Communication-reducing & synchronization-reducing algorithms
  • Time-space trade-offs in algorithms
  • Energy-efficient algorithms
Programming Models & Systems Software   Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
  • Parallel programming paradigms
  • Tools and libraries for performance & productivity
  • Job management
  • Monitoring & administration tools
  • Productivity improvement
  • Power & energy management & scheduling
  • Resilience
 
  • Neural networks & HPC
  • Machine learning & HPC
  • AI & machine learning-oriented hardware​
  • Devising benchmarks for machine learning
  • Use cases
Performance Modeling & Measurement   Emerging Technologies
  • Performance models
  • Performance prediction & engineering
  • Performance measurement
  • Power consumption
  • Energy measurement & modelling
 
  • Quantum computing architecture
  • Software for quantum computing
  • Quantum algorithms
  • Quantum annealing

 

Note: Submissions on other innovative aspects of high performance computing are also welcome. You will be asked to pick a primary and a secondary track from the eight above for your submission.

 

Submission & Review Process

Submission (The Call for Research Papers is closed!)
 

Guidelines

Only accepted style: LNCS style (Springer’s website)

  • Single column format
  • Maximum 18 pages (including figures and references)
  • LaTeX document class OR Word template
  • Suitable for anonymous review
  • Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded

It's allowed to put papers on ArXiv before submitting to ISC.

Review

Rebuttal phase (January 22-25, 2020)

  • Chance to respond to reviewer comments
  • Clarify misunderstandings
  • Written format
  • Authors receive instructions via email

Final decision (February 05, 2020)

  • Consideration of reviews and rebuttals
  • Discussion at research paper committee meeting
  • Notification of authors

 

Terms & Conditions

  • By submitting a paper, you agree to present the paper at ISC 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • The research paper sessions will be held from Monday, June 22 through Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Attendance will require a Conference Pass. Paper presenters need to be registered ISC 2020 participants.
  • The ISC organizers will grant a 100% discount on the conference day pass to one presenter per paper for the day of their presentation.
  • Travel, accommodation, registration fees and other such costs will not be covered by the ISC organizers.
PUBLICATIONS & SLIDES

The publication of the papers is managed by Proceedings Chair Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf with Hatem Ltaief , KAUST, as Proceedings Deputy Chair.

OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATION

LNCS Logo

All accepted research papers will be published in the Springer‘s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS] series in Gold Open Access.

 

Gold OA makes the final version of a research paper freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication. Paper submissions are required to be within 18 pages in LNCS style. For the camera-ready version, authors are automatically granted one extra page to incorporate reviewer comments.

Volumes published as part of the LNCS series are made available to the following indexing services: Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH.]

PRESENTATION SLIDES FOR ATTENDEES

The ISC organizers will make the presentation slides available online a week after the event, provided as PDF files. ISC 2020 attendees will receive an e-mail with the access link.

  • Jeff Hammond, NVIDIA, Finland (Chair)
  • Amanda Randles, Duke University, United States of America (Deputy Chair)

Algorithms, Methods & Tuning

  • Hatem Ltaief, KAUST, Saudi Arabia (Chair)
  • Ahmad Abdelfattah, University of Tennessee, United States of America
  • Sameh Abdulah, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
  • Qinglei Cao, Saint Louis University, United States of America
  • Kate Clark, NVIDIA, United States of America
  • Aimad Er-Raiy, Airbus, France
  • Aniello Esposito, HPE, Switzerland
  • Huda Ibeid, Intel, United States of America
  • Mathias Jacquelin, Cerebras Systems, United States of America
  • Kamer Kaya, Sabancı University, Turkey
  • Xinhua Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • Lena Oden, Fernuniversität in Hagen, Forschungszentrum Jülich GMBH, Germany
  • Jesmin Jahan Tithi, INTEL CORP, Intel, United States of America
  • Miwako Tsuji, RIKEN, AHUG, Japan
  • Ichitaro Yamazaki, Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America

Applications & Use Cases

  • Bronson Messer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America (Chair)
  • Reuben Budiardja, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Peter Coveney, UCL, University of Amsterdam, United Kingdom
  • Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, United States of America
  • Ian Karlin, NVIDIA, United States of America
  • Christopher Knight, Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Nicholas Malaya, AMD, United States of America
  • Bronson Messer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Ramesh Pankajakshan, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, United States of America
  • Scott Parker, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, United States of America
  • Markus Rampp, Max Planck Computing & Data Facility, Germany
  • Christine Simpson, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, United States of America
  • Tjerk Straatsma, ORNL, United States of America

Machine Learning & AI

  • Sofia Vallecorsa, CERN, Switzerland (Chair)
  • Vishakha Agrawal, SiFive, United States of America
  • Maxwell Cai, Intel, Leiden University, Netherlands
  • Renato Cardoso, CERN, Switzerland
  • Adel Chaibi, Intel, France
  • Nadya Chernyavskaya, Predictive Layer, Switzerland
  • Nikoli Dryden, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Tobias Grosser, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • Pratik Jawahar, University of Manchester, France
  • Vladimir Loncar, MIT, United States of America
  • Lukasz Miroslaw, Microsoft, Switzerland
  • Diana Moise, Cray, HPE, Switzerland
  • Bogdan Nicolae, Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America
  • David Ojika, University of Florida, United States of America
  • Piyush Raikwar, CERN, Switzerland
  • Vikram A. Saletore, Intel Corporation, United States of America
  • AMARJIT SINGH, RIKEN, Japan
  • Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
  • Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM, United States of America
  • Kyongmin Yeo, IBM, United States of America

Programming Environments & System Software

  • Tom Deakin, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Chair)
  • Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, United States of America
  • Biagio Cosenza, University of Salerno, Italy
  • Johannes Doerfert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Yehia Elkhatib, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Bilel Hadri, KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory, Saudi Arabia
  • Georg Hager, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen Regional Computing Center, Germany
  • Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Germany
  • Pekka Jääskeläinen, Tampere University, Intel Finland Oy, Finland
  • Pouya Kousha, The Ohio State University, United States of America
  • John Linford, NVIDIA, United States of America
  • Glenn Lockwood, Microsoft Corporation, United States of America
  • James Richings, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), United Kingdom
  • Roxana Rusitoru, Arm, United Kingdom
  • Sameer Shende, University of Oregon; ParaTools, Inc., United States of America
  • Osman Seckin Simsek, University of Basel, Switzerland

Quantum Computing

  • Stefan Knecht, AlgorithmiQ, Finland (Chair)
  • Ayush Asthana, University of north dakota, United States of America
  • Werner Dobrautz, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany
  • Jeanette Lorenz, Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS, LMU Munich, Germany
  • Stefano Mensa, The Hartree Centre, STFC, United Kingdom
  • Stephan P. A. Sauer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Francesco Tacchino, IBM Research Zürich, Switzerland
  • Ivano Tavernelli, IBM, Swaziland
  • Phillip Wagner Kastberg Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

System Architecture & Hardware Components

  • Samantika Sury, Samsung Semiconductor Incorporated, United States of America (Chair)
  • Eric Borch, Samsung, United States of America
  • Aditya Deshpande, Samsung Semiconductor Inc., United States of America
  • David D. Donofrio, Tactical Computing Laboratories, United States of America
  • Jayesh Iyer, Esperanto Technologies, United States of America
  • Nikhil Jain, NVIDIA, United States of America
  • Stefan Knecht, Algorithmiq, Germany
  • Kalyan Kumaran, Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Divya Prasad, AMD, United States of America
  • Roxana Rusitoru, Arm, United Kingdom
  • Jaehoon Yu, SAIT, South Korea