SIAM Workshop on Exascale Applied Mathematics Challenges and Opportunities (EX14)
July 6, 2014
The Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Organizer: Mark R. Fahey, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Co-located with:
The SIAM Workshop on Network Science NS14
July 6-7, 2014
2014 SIAM Annual Meeting
July 7-11, 2014
Program Schedule
The program schedule is now available. [PDF, 100 KB]
Theme
Background
Over the past few years, the focus of most workshops on exascale computing (defined as the use of computers capable of at least one quintillion calculations per second) has been the expected challenges of billion-way concurrency and the associated issues such as data motion, resilience, and energy usage. Less attention has been paid to the mathematics at exascale. The focus of this workshop is on providing relevant, accessible and timely material on exascale computing and the mathematical challenges with many-core and accelerated architectures. The intent is that attendees come away with a reasonable idea of the current state of the art, the current challenges and opportunities, and what needs to be done differently going forward. This workshop, a synthesis of the state of the field, will be accessible to non-experts and experts alike.
Funding Agency
SIAM and the Workshop Organizing Committee wish to extend their thanks and appreciation to the U.S. National Science Foundation for its support of the Workshop.
Presentations
The workshop will consist of a full day of contributed and invited presentations and discussions on topics including, but not limited to:
- Current state of the art
- Today’s hardware
- Parallel numerical algorithms and libraries
- Challenges
- Emerging architectures that will enable exascale
- Effectively using millions of computational units
- Hybrid architectures
- Resilience and fault-tolerant algorithms
- Reproducibility
- Future directions
- Compiler directives, domain libraries, or code changes, or?
- Decomposition/coupling/multiphysics evolution?
- How can algorithm and library developers harness future architectures
Case studies, position papers proposing topics for discussion, and technical talks describing particular approaches are invited. The organizers seek participants from a broad spectrum of areas, including developers of scientific simulation codes and industrial end users. The presentations are expected to be 30 minutes in length, but we will entertain exceptions.
Workshop Chair
Mark R. Fahey, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA [email protected]
Organizing Committee
Zhaojun Bai, University of California Davis, USA
Ed D’Azevedo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
James Ferguson, University of Tennessee, USA
Rebecca Hartman-Baker, iVEC, Australia
Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories
William Magro, Intel, USA
Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
How to Participate
Those wishing to participate should submit an abstract or position paper by February 28, 2014. Papers should be submitted through EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ex14. Submissions should be no longer than 1000 words; no additional material other than a list of cited references will be considered. Use no smaller than 11-point font and at least one-inch margins. There is a limit of at most two submissions that an individual can submit; no limits on number of groups/institutions. Each paper should provide contact information (name, institution, email address) for a single, corresponding author. If you do not already have an account on EasyChair, you will be asked to go through the easy process to create one.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by March 31, 2014. Submissions will be selected based on their quality and responsiveness to the call. We expect to post a list of the selected papers online with the agenda. Participants will be expected to fund their own travel and accommodations for the workshop.
Letter of Invitation
Confirmed authors in need of a Letter of Invitation to assist in the visa application process, please fill out the Letter of Invitation Request Form. Please allow three to four weeks for processing and delivery.
If you are not planning to present at the conference or are not yet an accepted author and need a letter of invitation before acceptance notifications are sent, please fill out the form AND provide the following information to [email protected]:
- Brief curriculum vita (including your date of birth and a list of publications over the past 3 years.)
- Brief statement why attending this conference would help your research and career.
- Letter of recommendation. Have a senior person (e.g. Ph.D. advisor, head of department, president of a mathematical society) write a brief letter of recommendation on appropriate letterhead. This letter is not needed if you have a minimum of twelve entries in MathSciNet. If this is the case please state so in your message to [email protected].
