PEARC17: Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2017 Conference Hyatt Regency New Orleans New Orleans, LA, United States, July 9-13, 2017 |
Conference website | http://pearc17.pearc.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pearc17 |
Tutorial submission deadline | March 6, 2017 |
Submission deadline | March 13, 2017 |
Posters, Visualization Showcase and Birds of a Feather submission deadline | May 1, 2017 |
PEARC17 welcomes all who care about the challenges in using and operating advanced research computing. Organizations supporting this new conference include the Advancing Research Computing on Campuses: Best Practices Workshop (ARCC), XSEDE, the Science Gateways Community Institute, the Campus Research Computing (CaRC) Consortium, the ACI-REF consortium, the Blue Waters project, ESnet, Open Science Grid, Compute Canada, the EGI Foundation, the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC), and Internet2. The theme of this year’s conference is Sustainability, Success and Impact—particularly apropos as we strive to succeed in making the conference itself a self-sustaining event with continued impact. The theme also reflects key objectives for those managing, developing, and using advanced research computing throughout the nation and the world—sustainability of the infrastructure environment, measuring and ensuring success for those organizations providing and using advanced research computing, and impact of the technologies on the workforce and on science and scholarship.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Submissions of both full papers and extended abstracts are permitted. Full papers of 5–8 pages are strongly preferred; extended abstracts should be at least 2 and no more than 4 pages. Authors with papers or extended abstracts accepted in the paper tracks must have at least one author attend the conference to make a 30-minute presentation. Extended abstracts can be included in the proceedings, but will not be entitled to submit full papers to the proceedings or be considered for the special journal issues. Student papers—Please indicate if the primary author is a student on your submission. To qualify, the work must be primarily the student's, the student must be the primary author, and the student must present the paper at the conference.
- Tutorials provide participants with in-depth training to effectively use and manage advanced research computing resources and services. Tutorials should be identified as targeting Introductory, Intermediate, or Advanced skill levels and may be proposed as full-day (6-hour), half-day (3-hour), or quarter-day tutorials (1.5-hour). Quarter-day tutorials are an option for those with shorter topics to cover or for those who want to offer Introductory and Advanced sections of a half-day tutorial, for example. Tutorials may cover a broad range of topics, for example: gateways, visualization, grid environments, cybersecurity, data-intensive science, data management, maximizing productivity, computational science, parallel programming, optimization, systems management, and writing proposals.
- Posters should present new results or promising work in progress, ideally aligned with topics encouraged in the paper tracks and/or aligned with the conference theme. Posters give authors an excellent opportunity to discuss their work in greater detail, without the limits imposed by an oral presentation. Posters should include reference to how advanced research computing applies to or benefits from the work. To be included in the proceedings, authors of accepted posters will need to provide a 2- to 4-page version of the poster formatted in the proceedings format by the June 9 deadline. Student posters—Please indicate if the primary author is a student on your submission. To qualify, the work must be primarily the student's, the student must be the primary author, and the student must present the poster.
- The Visualization Showcase presents innovative digital imagery that demonstrates the analytic potential of advanced computing technologies and the transformative impact that such images have on scientific discovery. Proposals should be of general interest to advanced research computing communities and should include a brief explanation (abstract) as to why the research is relevant to improving the quality or productivity of the resources and services available to the open science community. The visualizations should be provided via link for viewing (e.g., YouTube) or downloading (e.g., Dropbox) in a common media format such as MPEG or QuickTime. To be included in the published conference proceedings, authors of accepted visualizations will need to provide an extended abstract (2–4 pages) using the proceedings format detailing the science application, resulting data, and the visualization techniques and tools applied.
- Birds of a Feather sessions are intended to engage attendees in informal discussions devoted to forward-looking topics drawn from the areas described in the submission guidelines for the conference. Submissions involving multiple institutions or projects are especially welcome since this often leads to broader participation and a wider range of viewpoints. Proposals should discuss the relevance of the topic to the conference participants and the specific contribution of each organizer.
List of Topics
- Technology: This track will focus on technology and infrastructure developments, practices, and experiences that enable increased performance, capability, productivity, usability or reliability of digital resources. Topics may include, but are not limited to, compute and storage systems, grid middleware, cybersecurity, job schedulers, tracking and monitoring practices and tools, workflow solutions, green computing, networking and data management. Submissions should describe both the technology and its impact. Submissions related to any advanced research computing environment are welcome.
- Software and Data: This track will focus on practices and experiences related to software and data environments that enable the effective use, access, or operation of advanced research computing. Topics may include, but are not limited to, science gateways, middleware and community codes spanning the sciences, engineering, humanities and social sciences. Submissions can highlight strategies and approaches to software integration; modular frameworks; cybersecurity issues; software, data and computation management; and engagement of user communities. Submissions should also include details of software and data requirements, design strategies, architecture, implementation, deployment and sustainability.
- Workforce, Diversity, and Evaluation: This track will focus on workforce development and diversity efforts for engaging and sustaining a diverse scientific, academic and industrial workforce in all fields of study. Submissions should represent evidence-based efforts that help advance computational and data-enabled research or education by recruiting and preparing current and future generations to advance scientific discovery through the use of cyberinfrastructure. Submissions are especially encouraged that address the inclusion of traditionally under-represented communities (including women, minorities, people with disabilities, institutions and disciplines).
- Accelerating Discovery in Scholarly Research: This track will emphasize the practices and experiences in facilitating and enabling scholarship via advanced research computing. Submissions may highlight computational approaches employed (algorithms, techniques, software, models, etc.), should explain how advanced research computing enabled or enhanced the scholarly accomplishments, and discuss how the work may apply beyond the original work. Submissions to this track may include case studies of computational practices and environments that helped advance state-of-the-art research. It is not expected that submissions will include detailed discussion of original domain-focused research results.
Publication
PEARC17 proceedings will be published electronically by ACM's ICPS and added to the ACM Digital Library. New for PEARC17, poster papers and visualization showcase descriptions can be included in the proceedings along with papers and extended abstracts. Selected technical papers will also be invited to extend the manuscripts to be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal of Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. Selected papers from the "Workforce, Diversity, and Evaluation" track on training or education topics will be invited to extend the manuscripts for publication in the Journal of Computational Science Education.
Venue
The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. The Hyatt Regency New Orleans is located in the heart of downtown, next to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Smoothie King Center and Champions Square. Take a ride on the Loyola Avenue Streetcar, which passes directly in front of the hotel, or take a walk to the historic French Quarter, Arts District, Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, the National World War II Museum, and the scenic Mississippi Riverfront – all located within one mile of the hotel.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to pearc17@easychair.org.