Call for Papers Issued for ISAV 2016 Workshop

June 1 — The considerable interest in the HPC community regarding in situ analysis and visualization is due to several factors. First is an I/O cost savings, where data is analyzed/visualized while being generated, without first storing to a file system. Second is the potential for increased accuracy, where fine temporal sampling of transient analysis might expose some complex behavior missed in coarse temporal sampling. Third is the ability to use all available resources, CPU’s and accelerators, in the computation of analysis products.

The workshop brings together researchers, developers and practitioners from industry, academia, and government laboratories developing, applying, and deploying in situ methods in extremescale, high performance computing. The goal is to present research findings, lessons learned, and insights related to developing and applying in situ methods and infrastructure across a range of science and engineering applications in HPC environments; to discuss topics like opportunities presented by new architectures, existing infrastructure needs, requirements, and gaps, and experiences to foster and enable in situ analysis and visualization; to serve as a “center of gravity” for researchers, practitioners, and users/consumers of in situ methods and infrastructure in the HPC space.

Participation/Call for Papers and Oral Presentations

We invite two types of submissions to ISAV 2016: (1) short, 4 page papers that present research results, that identify opportunities or challenges, and that present case studies/best practices for in situ methods/infrastructure in the areas of data management, analysis and visualization; (2) lightning presentation submission, consisting of a 1 or 2 page submission, for a brief oral presentation at the workshop. Short papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be invited to give an oral presentation of 15 to 20 minutes; lightning round submissions that are invited to present at the workshop will have author names and titles included as part of the proceedings. Submissions of both types are welcome that fall within one or more areas of interest, as follows:

Areas of interest for ISAV, include, but are not limited to:

In situ infrastructures

Current Systems: production quality, research prototypes
Opportunities
Gaps

System resources, hardware, and emerging architectures

Enabling Hardware
Hardware and architectures that provide opportunities for In situ processing, such as burst buffers, staging computations on I/O nodes, sharing cores within a node for both simulation and in situ processing

Methods/algorithms/applications/case studies

Best practices
Analysis: feature detection, statistical methods, temporal methods, geometric methods
Visualization: information visualization, scientific visualization, timevarying methods
Data reduction/compression
Examples/case studies of solving a specific science challenge with in situ methods/infrastructure.

Simulation

Integration: data modeling, software engineering
Resilience: error detection, fault recovery
Workflows for supporting complex in situ processing pipelines

Requirements

Preserve important elements
Significantly reduce the data size
Flexibility for post-processing exploration

Review Process

All submissions will undergo a peerreview process consisting of three reviews by experts in the field, and evaluated according to relevance to the workshop theme, technical soundness, creativity, originality, and impactfulness of method/results. Lightning round submissions will be evaluated primarily for relevance to the workshop.

Submission Process

Authors are invited to submit papers of at most 4 pages in PDF format, excluding references, and lightning presentations of at most 2 pages in PDF format, excluding references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (templates available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedingstemplate) and submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isav2016). No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed.

Papers must be selfcontained and provide the technical substance required for the program committee to evaluate their contributions. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. See the ACM Prior Publication Policy for more details. Papers can be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isav2016.

Publication in proceedings, presentation at the workshop

All paper submissions that receive favorable reviews will be included as part of the workshop proceedings, which will be published through SIGHPC along with other SC16 workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. Lightning round submissions will not be included as part of the proceedings.

Subject to the constraints of workshop length, some subset of the accepted publications will be invited to give a brief oral presentation at the workshop. The exact number of such presentations and their length will be determined after the review process has been completed.

Timeline/Important Dates