Call Now Open for ISC 2018 Research Papers

FRANKFURT, Oct. 5, 2017 — Submissions are now open for the ISC 2018 conference research paper sessions, which aim to provide first-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). Submissions will be accepted through December 22, 2017.

The research paper sessions will be held from Monday, June 25, through Wednesday, June 27, 2018. ISC High Performance (ISC 2018) will be hosted in Frankfurt, Germany.

Submitted research papers will be peer-reviewed double-blind by at least four reviewers. This year’s Research Papers Committee is headed by Prof. David Keyes, KAUST, as Chair and Dr.-Ing. Carsten Trinitis, TU Munich, as Deputy Chair and Prof. Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, as Proceedings Chair and Dr. Michèle Weiland, EPCC, as Proceedings Deputy Chair.

Publication

All accepted research papers will be published in the Springer‘s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For the camera-ready version, authors are automatically granted one extra page to incorporate reviewer comments. The publication is free of charge and the published papers can be downloaded from Springer‘s website for a limited time after the conference. The proceedings are indexed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus and Zentralblatt MATH.

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 seven tracks this year.

Architectures & Networks

• Future design concepts of HPC systems

• Multicore / manycore systems

• Heterogeneous systems

• Network technology

• Domain-specific architectures

• Memory technologies

• Trends in the HPC chip market

• Exascale computing

Data, Storage & Visualization

• 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

• Highly scalable applications

• Convergence of simulations & big data

• Scalability on future architectures

• Workflow management

• Coupled simulations

• Industrial simulations

• Implementations on SIMT accelerators

HPC Algorithms

• Innovative algorithms, discrete or continuous

• Algorithmic-based fault tolerance

• Communication-reducing algorithms

• Synchronization-reducing algorithms

• Time-space tradeoffs in algorithms

Programming Models & Systems Software

• Parallel programming paradigms

• Tools and libraries for performance & productivity

• Job management

• Monitoring & administration tools

• Productivity improvement

• Energy efficiency

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

• Neural networks & HPC

• Machine learning & HPC

• AI and ML-oriented hardware

• Towards benchmarks in ML

Performance Modeling & Measurement

• Performance models

• Performance prediction & engineering

• Performance measurement

• Power consumption

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 seven above for your submission. Please refer to www.isc-hpc.com/research-papers-2018.html for full submission guidelines.

Awards

The ISC organizers will again sponsor the call for research papers with the Hans Meuer Award for the most outstanding research paper.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline	Friday, December 22, 2017
Author Rebuttals	Monday, February 19 – Thursday, February 22, 2018
Notification of Acceptance	Monday, March 5, 2018
Camera-Ready Submission	Monday, April 2, 2018
Submission Research Paper Sessions	Monday, June 25 – Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Final Presentation Slides in PDF due	Friday, June 29, 2018