ISC21-SuperCompCloud: ISC'21 SuperCompCloud: 4th Workshop on Interoperability of Supercomputing and Cloud Technologies Frankfurt, Germany, July 2, 2021 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/supercompcloud/isc21-4th-supercompcloud-workshop?authuser=0 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc21supercompcloud |
Abstract registration deadline | April 16, 2021 |
Author notification | April 30, 2021 |
Submission deadline | June 28, 2021 |
Camera ready deadline | August 15, 2021 |
Imminent arrival and deployment of exascale systems among multiple hyperscaler cloud providers are expected to enable breakthroughs for multiple scientific disciplines. Increasingly these systems utilize cloud technologies, enabling complex and distributed workflows that can improve not only scientific productivity, but accessibility of resources to a wide range of communities. Such an integrated and seamlessly orchestrated system for supercomputing and cloud technologies is indispensable for experimental facilities that have been experiencing an unprecedented rate of data growth. While a subset of high performance computing (HPC) services have been available within public cloud environments, petascale and beyond data and computing capabilities are largely provisioned within HPC data centers using traditional, close-to-metal provisioning to ensure performance, scaling and cost effectiveness. At the same time, on-demand and interactive provisioning of services, commonplace in public cloud environments, remain elusive for leading supercomputing ecosystems. This workshop aims to bring together a group of experts and practitioners from academia, national laboratories, and industry to discuss technologies, use cases and best practices in order to set a vision and direction for leveraging high performance, extreme-scale computing and on-demand cloud ecosystems. Topics of interest include tools and technologies enabling scientists for applications development and deployment pipelines, interoperability of HPC and cloud resource management and scheduling systems, cloud and HPC storage convergence to allow a high degree of flexibility for users and community platform developers, continuous integration/deployment approaches, reproducibility of scientific workflows in distributed environment, and best practices for enabling X-as-a-Service model at scale while complying with a range of security constraints.
Important Dates
Extended abstract submission deadline: April 9, 2021
Author notification: April 30, 2021
Full paper (conference ready) deadline: June 28, 2021
Workshop date and time: July 2, 2021
Camera-ready papers for Proceedings Deadline: early August 2021
Please refer to ISC 2021 workshop for additional timelines and details: https://www.isc-hpc.com/workshops-2021.html
Submission Guidelines
Submissions will be done through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc21supercompcloud
All submissions must be in English and should follow the LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. Submission must be made as a single PDF file which includes all figures and references. Papers should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal.
The Workshop will accept up to 5 pages extended abstract by the extended abstract submission deadline (see Important Dates above). Authors of selected abstracts, after a peer-reviewed process, will be invited to submit a full paper before the workshop (12 pages maximum in LNCS format, including figures and references) and to present their work on July 2, 2021. A camera-ready deadline will allow to slightly adjust their contributions based on the feedback given during the workshop. Full papers will be published in the ISC 2021 workshop proceedings with Springer. The proceedings will appear as post-conference workshop proceedings. Please refer to ISC Workshop https://www.isc-hpc.com/workshops-2021.html for further details.
List of Topics
This workshop will cover topics related to interoperability of supercomputing and cloud computing, networking and storage technologies that are being leveraged by use cases and research infrastructure providers with a goal to improve productivity and reproducibility of extreme-scale scientific workflows:
- Virtualization for HPC e.g. virtual machines, containers, etc.
- Storage systems for HPC and cloud technologies
- On-demand and interactivity with performance, scaling and cost efficiencies
- Resource management and scheduling systems for HPC and cloud technologies
- Software defined infrastructure for high-end computing, storage and networking
- Application environment, integration and deployment technologies
- Secure, high-speed networking for integrated HPC and cloud ecosystems
- Extreme data and compute workflows and use cases
- Research infrastructure deployment use cases
- Resiliency and reproducibility of complex and distributed workflows
- Isolation and security within shared HPC environments
- X-as-a-Service technologies with performance and scalability
- Workflow orchestration using public cloud and HPC data centre resources
- Authentication, authorization and accounting interoperability for HPC and cloud ecosystems
- Workforce development for integrated HPC and cloud environments
Committees
Program Committee
To be confirmed.
Committee members are currently being solicited and confirmed. If you would like to participate in the committee please contact the workshop organizers at supercompcloud@googlegroups.com.
Organizing committee
- Sadaf Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland
- François Tessier, INRIA, France
- David Y. Hancock, Indiana University, USA
- Winnona G. Snapp-Childs, Indiana University, USA
- John M. Lowe, Indiana University, USA
Invited Speakers
- To be confrimed
Publication
ISC21-SuperCompCloud proceedings will be published in the ISC 2021 workshop proceedings with Springer.
Venue
Held virtually as part of the ISC'21 conference platform on Friday, July 2, 2021 (schedule TBD).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to supercompcloud@googlegroups.com.