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CFP: Workshop on Performance Evaluation, Modeling, and Analysis of Scientific Applications on Large-Scale Systems, Melbourne Australia, June 2-4, 2003

Workshop on Performance Evaluation, Modeling, and Analysis of Scientific
Applications on Large-Scale Systems (PMA-03)

To be held in conjunction with International Conference on Computational
Science, ICCS-03, in Melbourne Australia.

June 2-4, 2003

URL: <http://iccs03.cs.uwa.edu.au/workshops/workshop9.html>

Scope

The aim of this workshop is to provide an open forum for bringing together
current practices, work-in-progress, and promising research techniques that
can be used to develop an understanding of performance. In particular the
important area of performance modeling will be covered from a systems and
an application viewpoint. The workshop is aimed at researchers in the high
performance computing, Grid, and computational science areas.

Understanding the achievable performance of an application on large-scale
parallel system is of prime importance in their efficient utilization, and
in the development of future architectures. Along these lines, a central
theme of the workshop is that "performance" has to be well defined, and
then factors influencing it have to be understood, before it can be
meaningfully evaluated or improved.

Papers are invited to be submitted in the following areas:

-  Performance of large-scale parallel architectures and applications
-  Techniques for modeling achievable performance
-  Benchmarking and analysis of current full-systems including
-  Scheduling software and other HPC and Grid middleware
-  I/O subsystem
-  Correlating low-level benchmarks to real applications performance
-  Characterization of computational demands in HPC applications
     (including "application signatures")
-  Uses for Performance Modeling including: designing systems
     to best support particular algorithm/application families
-  Innovative approaches to predicting the expected performance
     of future machines
-  Methods for picking the right machine for an application
-  Definitions of "performance" including definitions that factor
     in value that users place on traditional "performance" metrics

Particular emphasis will be placed on techniques that have been shown to be
of value in practice, on innovative and creative ideas for dealing with the
challenges inherent in evaluating current HPC systems, and/or designing
future ones guided by the computational demands of scientific applications.
We will also look favorably on submissions featuring creativity and
thinking "out-of-the-box".

Workshop Organizers

    Adolfy Hoisie, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Darren J. Kerbyson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Allan Snavely, San Diego Supercomputer Center
    Jeffrey Vetter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Publication

All accepted workshop papers will appear along with other ICCS-03 papers in
a special volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science to be published by
Springer.


Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original and previously
unpublished research in the workshop areas listed above. Papers should be
submitted electronically in PDF format (or postscript) as an email
attachment to either hoisie@lanl.gov, or allans@sdsc.edu. There is no page
limit on submission but accepted papers will need to be formatted according
to Springer LNCS guidelines with a page limit of 10-pages. Please note that
the size of an LNCS page is less than that of a US letter.

Important Dates

        Paper submission deadline:	January 15th 2003
        Author Notification:		February 2nd 2003
        Final papers due:		February 15th 2003


Workshop Contact Information

        Adolfy Hoisie		Allan Snavely
        CCS-3, MS B256		Integrative Computational Sciences
        P.O. Box 1663		SDSC University of California, San Diego
        Los Alamos		10100 Hopkins Drive, La Jolla
        NM 87545
        Tel: +1 (505) 667-5216	Tel: +1 (858) 534-5158
        Fax: +1 (505) 667-1126	Fax: +1 (858) 534-5117
        Email: hoisie@lanl.gov	Email: allans@sdsc.edu


Workshop Web address
	<http://iccs03.cs.uwa.edu.au/workshops/workshop9.html>



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