Research Paper Sessions

The Research Paper Sessions provide first class open forums for engineers and scientists to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of high-performance computing (HPC).

This year, sixteen papers have been accepted for the Research Paper Sessions at ISC and have been published in a special edition of Computer Science – Research and Development, Springer Verlag, Germany.

Monday, June 18 – Research Paper Session 1

• The Green500 List: Escapades to Exascale (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• The Co-Design Architecture for Exascale Systems, a Novel Approach for Scalable Designs (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• Simulating Parallel Programs on Application & System Level (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• Redesigning MPI Shared Memory Communication for Large Multi-Core Architecture (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• The Design of Ultra Scalable MPI Collective Communication on the K Computer (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• Performance Analysis & Prediction for Distributed Homogeneous Clusters >>Talk, >>Paper)
• GAUSS Award Winning Paper – Blue Gene/Q: By Co-Design (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• Performance Characterization of Data-Intensive Kernels on AMD Fusion Architectures (>>Talk, >>Paper)

Tuesday, June 19 – Research Paper Session 2

• PRACE Award Winning Paper – A Fast & Scalable Low Dimensional Solver for Charged Particle Dynamics in Large Particle Accelerators (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• Understanding Parallelism in Graph Traversal on Multi-core Clusters (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• UPC-CHECK: A Scalable Tool for Detecting Run-Time Errors in Unified Parallel C (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• Using LAMA for Efficient AMG on Hybrid Clusters (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• GBench: Benchmarking Methodology for Evaluating the Energy Efficiency of Supercomputers (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• Reducing the HPC-Datastorage Footprint with MAFISC – Multidimensional Adaptive Filtering Improved Scientific Data Compression (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• Towards I/O Analysis of HPC Systems & a Generic Architecture to Collect Access Patterns (>>Talk, >>Paper)
• Application of the ParalleX Execution Model to Stencil-based Problems (>>Talk, >>Paper)

In the Agenda Planner, Research Paper Sessions are marked in dark blue; to attend these sessions, you need a Conference Pass or Exhibition Pass.

Call for Papers – Closed

Please note that the call for papers is now closed.

The Research Paper Sessions provide first class open forums for engineers and scientists to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of high-performance computing (HPC).

For the first time, we will feature the submission of a single topic in the new research thrust: in the 50k+ topic we encourage scientists to submit parallelization approaches which lead to scalable applications on more than 50,000 (CPU or GPU) cores.

Important Dates

Areas of Interest

We encourage submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental and industrial research and development in the following areas:

Submissions on other innovative aspects of HPC are also welcome.

Research Thrust: 50k+

The increasing number of processing elements is challenging for application developers – in order to achieve a high scalability of the massively parallel systems, codes must be designed carefully. This year, we encourage scientists to submit results which demonstrate scaling of an application on more than 50,000 cores. Results with GPGPU applications can be submitted as well. "Cores" may be CPU or GPGPU cores or any combination of them. Submitted papers should include the problem description, the parallelization approaches and benchmarks proving high scalability and efficiency of the application. We hope to encourage developers of different fields of science to submit and present their research in the conference.

Awards

Two awards are given to outstanding papers. The German Gauss Center for Supercomputing sponsors the Gauss Award, which will be assigned to the most outstanding paper in the field of scalable supercomputing.

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing will award the PRACE Award to the best scientific paper by a European student or scientist in the following areas:

• A breakthrough in science achieved with high performance computing resources.
• Algorithms or implementations that achieve significant improvements in scalability.
• Novel approaches to performance evaluation on massively parallel architectures.

The PRACE Award will be given to a paper submitted to ISC'12 or submitted to the PRACE Day. The PRACE Award will be presented at the ISC'12 Opening Session on Monday, June 18. The winner of the PRACE Award will receive sponsorship for participation in a training event or a conference relevant to petascale computing and will have the opportunity to give a keynote talk on their work during the PRACE Day on Sunday, June 17.

Submission

Full papers should be submitted via the EasyChair conference system by Sunday, January 22, 2012. We only accept submissions in PDF format which are correctly formatted using the Springer LaTeX style and do not exceed 8 pages. Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. Papers will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers and will be evaluated based on their novelty, fundamental insights and potential for long-term contribution. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer’s website. Please use Springer's two-column LaTeX macro package and choose the formatting option “twocolumn”.

By submitting a paper, you agree to present the paper at ISC'12 in Hamburg, Germany; presenters need to be registered ISC'12 participants.

Proceedings

A maximum of 24 accepted papers will be published in a special edition of “Computer Science – Research and Development”, Springer Verlag, Germany, which will be available at ISC’12 from June 17 on.

Committees

ISC'12 Research Paper Committee

The Research Paper Committee sets up the Research Paper Sessions, based on a call-for-papers procedure.

• Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Guang R. Gao, ET International & University of Delaware, USA
• Reinhard Gerndt, Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Germany

PRACE Scientific Steering Committee

The PRACE Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) will select the paper to receive the PRACE Award from all the papers submitted to the ISC Research Paper Sessions and the PRACE Day.

• José M. Baldasano, BSC, Spain
• Kurt Binder, Universität Mainz, Germany
• Paolo Carloni, German Research School for Simulation Science (GRS), Germany

Gauss Award Committee

From all papers accepted for the ISC’12 Research Paper Sessions, the Gauss Award Committee chooses the most outstanding paper in the field of scalable supercomputing to receive the Gauss Award.

• Arndt Bode, Technical University Munich, Germany
• Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
• Thomas Ludwig, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Germany