Call For Position Papers

The 1st International Workshop on Post-Moore's Era Supercomputing (PMES)

Co-located with SC16, Salt Lake City

Monday, 14 November 2016

Workshop URL: http://j.mp/pmes2016

CFP URL: http://j.mp/pmes2016cfp

Submission URL (EasyChair): http://j.mp/pmes2016submissions

Submission questions: pmes16@easychair.org

Workshop Description

This interdisciplinary workshop is organized to explore the scientific issues, challenges, and opportunities for supercomputing beyond the scaling limits of Moore's Law, with the ultimate goal of keeping supercomputing at the forefront of computing technologies beyond the physical and conceptual limits of current systems. Continuing progress of supercomputing beyond the scaling limits of Moore's Law is likely to require a comprehensive re-thinking of technologies, ranging from innovative materials and devices, circuits, system architectures, programming systems, system software, and applications.

The workshop is designed to foster interdisciplinary dialog across the necessary spectrum of stakeholders: applications,

algorithms, software, and hardware. Motivating workshop questions will include the following. "What technologies might prevail in the Post Moore's Era?" "How can applications effectively prepare for these changes through co-design?" "What architectural abstractions should be in place to represent the traditional concepts like hierarchical parallelism, multi-tier data locality, and new concepts like variable precision, approximate solutions, and resource tradeoff directives?" "What programming models might insulate applications from these changes?"

Experts from academia, government, and industry in the fields of computational science, mathematics, engineering, and computer science will have the opportunity to participate in the workshop as a presenter, panelist, or audience member. Invited speakers will provide insights and challenges from their disciplinary perspectives while peer-reviewed position papers on promising ideas will be presented to facilitate community interaction and diversity. Panel sessions will provide opportunities for interactions across disciplines and provocative questions from the audience.

Workshop Topics (not exclusive)

Submission Invitation

The Organizing Committee invites the submission of position papers in the areas of interest for the PMES workshop. The Organizing Committee will review these position papers, and accept position papers for presentation at the workshop. Position papers should describe a research topic or question in next-generation hardware and software technologies, such as those topics listed above. This description should briefly address the following criteria:

Authors of accepted position papers will be invited to participate in the workshop based on the overall quality of the position paper and our expectation that their inclusion in the workshop will stimulate constructive discussion by workshop participants. Unique or controversial positions that are well presented and emphasize transformative approaches to these questions will be given preference. Finally, all accepted position papers will be made available online on the workshop website.

Submission Format and Process

Submissions must conform to the following format:

Submissions must be received at the submission website http://j.mp/pmes2016submissions by the posted deadline.

Selected papers

Authors of position papers are invited to submit a journal length version of their work to IEEE Micro for our special issue. See the IEEE Micro CFP.

Important Dates

Organizing Committee