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EuroMPI 2012 Deadline Extension
by Rolf Rabenseifner 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

Dear HLRS User or member of my course-invitation-list, as member of the program committee, I'm sending you the CFP for the EuroMPI 2012. The deadline for full paper and poster abstract submissions was extended to May 16, 2012. Best regards Rolf Rabenseifner ------------------------------------------------------------ [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------ EuroMPI 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS Recent Advances in Message Passing Interface. 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, September 23-26, 2012 www.eurompi2012.org BACKGROUND AND TOPICS EuroMPI is the preeminent meeting for users, developers and researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications of message-passing parallel computing, in particular in and related to the Message Passing Interface (MPI). The annual meeting has a long, rich tradition, and the 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting will again be a lively forum for discussion of everything related to usage and implementation of MPI and other parallel programming interfaces. Traditionally, the meeting has focused on the efficient implementation of aspects of MPI, typically on high-performance computing platforms, benchmarking and tools for MPI, short-comings and extensions of MPI, parallel I/O and fault tolerance, as well as parallel applications using MPI. The meeting is open towards other topics, in particular application experience and alternative interfaces for high-performance heterogeneous, hybrid, distributed memory systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * MPI implementation issues and improvements * Extensions to and shortcomings of MPI * Tools and environments for MPI * Hybrid and heterogeneous programming with MPI and other interfaces * Relation of MPI to alternative interfaces for hybrid/heterogeneous distributed memory systems * Interaction between message-passing software and hardware, in particular new high performance architectures * Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems * Performance evaluation for MPI and MPI based applications * Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations * Verification of message passing applications and protocols * Applications using message-passing, in particular in Computational Science and Scientific Computing * Non-standard message-passing applications * Parallel algorithms in the message-passing paradigm * Algorithms using the message-passing paradigm The meeting will feature contributed talks on the selected, peer-reviewed papers, invited expert talks covering upcoming and future issues, a vendor session where selected vendors will present their new developments in hybrid and heterogeneous cluster and high-performance architectures, a poster session, and a tutorial day. As in 2011, EuroMPI 2012 will include the special session IMUDI dedicated to improving MPI user and developer interaction. The special session will have the same deadlines as the conference, but its own CFP and feature its own specialist program committee that will review all dedicated IMUDI submissions. This session should attract strongly application focused papers showing potential or problems with MPI and current MPI practice. IMUDI papers may be shorter and may center on problem analysis rather than solution, and will thus contribute to intensify discussion between MPI developers and application programmers. Other, special sessions may be organized, and proposals are solicited. Proceedings for EuroMPI 2012 will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). A Special Issue of the Springer "Computing" journal is planned for a selection of the best papers of the conference. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Contributors are invited to submit a full paper as a PDF document not exceeding 10 pages in English. The title page should contain an abstract of at most 100 words and five specific, topical keywords. The paper must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is strongly recommended. Style files can be found with Springer New work that is not yet mature for a full paper, short observations, and similar brief announcements are invited for the poster session. Contributions to the poster session should be submitted in the form of a two page abstract. All contributions will be fully peer reviewed by the program committee. Papers shall be submitted electronically via Easychair, see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurompi2012 Papers with a very strong application focus concerned with use of MPI and possible obstacles should be considered for submission to the IMUDI special session, see http://press.mcs.anl.gov/imudi SCHEDULE, IMPORTANT DATES (Note: deadline extended!) * Submission of full papers and poster abstracts: May 16, 2012 * Author Notification: June 15th, 2012 * Camera Ready papers due: July 9th, 2012 * Tutorial(s): September 23rd, 2012 * Conference: September 24-26th, 2012 GENERAL CHAIR Jack Dongarra ORGANIZERS, PC CHAIRS Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, sigi(a)par.univie.ac.at Jesper Larsson Traeff, Vienna University of Technology, traff(a)par.tuwien.ac.at PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria Gil Bloch, Mellanox Technologies George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA Darius Buntinas, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Franck Cappello, INRIA, France and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Gilles Civario, Irish Centre for High-End Computing Yiannis Cotronis, University of Athens, Greece Jim Cownie, Intel, UK Anthony Danalis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Luiz DeRose, Cray, USA Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA Brice Goglin, INRIA, France David Goodell, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah, USA Richard Graham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Thomas Herault, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Torsten Hoefler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Yutaka Ishikawa, Universty of Tokyo, Japan Michael Kagan, Mellanox Technologies Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jesus Labarta, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Dong Li, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Ewing Rusty Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Amith Rajith Mamidala, IBM, USA Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Guillaume Mercier, INRIA, France Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Germany Matthias Mueller, Center for Information Services and HPC, TU Dresden, Germany Rolf Rabenseifner, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Rolf Riesen, IBM, Ireland Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Peter Sanders Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan Saba Sehrish, Northwestern University, USA Christian Siebert, University of Aachen, Germany Stephen Siegel, University of Delaware, USA Anna Sikora, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Jeff Squyres, Cisco, USA Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu, Japan Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Vinod Tipparaju, AMD, USA Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, Germany Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Jesper Larsson Traeff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Keith Underwood, Intel, USA Robert Van De Geijn, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Alan Wagner, University of British Columbia, Canada Roland Wismueller, University of Siegen, Germany Xin Yuan, Florida State University, USA CONFERENCE VENUE EuroMPI 2012 will be held in Vienna, Austria, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna is easily accessible by plane and train, and in addition to the conference has a highly attractive cultural heritage. CONFERENCE FEES The conference will hopefully be well supported by sponsors, which will help directly towards keeping the fees low. As far as possible, special student fees will be offered.

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May meeting registration
by Richard Graham 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Just a reminder that today is the last day to register for the MPI forum AND request a room in the meeting allocation. The registration link is: https://register.ornl.gov/2012/mpi_forum/ Registration will continue after this date, but hotel rooms will no longer be guaranteed to be available. Also, an issue with the registration page has been resolved, and you can now register without requesting accommodations. Rich

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Updating the draft standard document
by Richard Graham 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Just a reminder that ticket owners are responsible for working with the each chapter committee to get the changes voted into the standard include in the draft standard document. E-mail lists have been setup for each of the chapter working groups to handle the logistics associate with such changes. The chapter "author"s all have the e-mail list information, and should be adding wg members to these lists. A few reminders: - Only changes that have passed the required 2 votes (or those ticket 0 changes that have been made AND voted in) may go into the draft standard - Chapter author may either commit the changes, or delegate this responsibility to someone else - When you run into issues that arise because of the order in which tickets are voted in, please work with the chapter committees to resolve these. These can be voted on in the final chapter votes. This assumes that two tickets are not in conflict with each other, but if they are, these will need to come back for a broader discussion (not aware of any such items). Please remember that the goal is to have a final vote on MPI 3.0 in Sept in Vienna. I hope I am not forgetting things, Rich

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May meeting logistics
by Richard Graham 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Just a couple of items: - The agenda has been updated, to reflect several new requests. As part of that, all voting has been moved to the last day. I expect to get a request for working group time from the Tools working group, but if there are others that need time, please let me know. - Just a reminder that the cutoff for hotel registration is April (not May) 24th. If you have not registered but expect to attend (waiting on approval, or some other issue), please let me know, so we can plan the logistics appropriately. This is not a commitment on your behalf, but just a help to those that are working on the logistics. Thanks, Rich

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Agenda for the May 2012 MPI Forum meeting
by Richard Graham 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

I have started to populate the agenda for the May meeting. Note: we are schedule to start at 10 am on Monday. IMPORTANT: I moved ALL the tickets that have passed the first reading to a first vote. IF you do NOT want these coming up to a first vote at the meeting, please let me know, and I will remove them from the list. I moved all tickets that passed a first vote to a second vote, pending any needed implementation. I expect those that will provide an implementation for the first time will also require some time discussion, to answer questions that people may have, before a vote proceeds. If you are NOT ready for a 2nd vote at this meeting, please let me know, and we can postpone these. Just a reminder - tickets that do not make it through the 1st vote will not make it into MPI 3.0. Please let me know if - You want to have a formal reading - You want plenary time - You want working group time. At this stage I scheduled time for the 2 working groups that will need some time - FT and Collectives. I am rather sure that at that other WG, such as the tools WG and the Persistence WG, will also want some time, but was not sure. Finally, if you send e-mail to my ORNL account, I will not receive it. E-mail does not seem to be bouncing from this account, but I have not had access to it for about three weeks, so if you sent anything to me at that account, I have not (and will not) seen it. You can send email to at Mellanox, to richardg. Thanks, Rich

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