SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) is inviting submissions for the PASC17 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGHPC, which will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland, from June 26 to 28, 2017.

The PASC Conference is an interdisciplinary conference in high- performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science - where computer science is focused on enabling the realization of scientific computation.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The PASC17 Conference invites participants from academia, research laboratories and industry to discuss the state of the art in computational science in the context of high-performance computing. The conference is an opportunity for researchers in computational science to present innovative research that can help address societal challenges of today and the future.

PROGRAM

The PASC Conference offers three days of stimulating and thought- provoking technical sessions, including keynote presentations, minisymposia, peer-reviewed papers, panels and poster sessions. The conference is co-sponsored by ACM SIGHPC, and papers are published in the ACM Digital Library.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Researchers from academia and industry are encouraged to participate and present their research in the form of papers, minisymposia and/or posters. PASC17 welcomes submissions in the following scientific fields:

• Climate and Weather
• Computer Science and Mathematics
• Emerging Domains (Special topic: HPC and Precision Medicine)
• Engineering
• Life Sciences
• Materials Science and Chemistry
• Physics
• Solid Earth Dynamics

PAPERS

The goal of the PASC papers initiative is to advance the quality of scientific communication between the various disciplines of computational science and engineering. The initiative is built from an observation that the computer science community traditionally publishes in the proceedings of major international conferences, while domain science communities publish primarily in disciplinary journals - neither of which is read regularly by the other disciplinary community. The PASC papers initiative is focused on bringing these communities and publishing cultures together.

By submitting papers to the PASC Conference, authors can benefit from the rapid and broad dissemination of results afforded by the conference venue and associated proceedings, as well as from the impact associated with publication in a high-quality scientific journal (see below for more details).

SUBMISSIONS

The PASC17 papers program is soliciting high-quality contributions of original research relating to high performance computing in the eight domain-specific tracks listed above. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

• The use of advanced computing systems for large-scale scientific applications
• Implementation strategies for science applications in energy-efficient computing architectures
• Domain-specific languages, libraries or frameworks
• The integration of large-scale experimental and observational scientific data and high-performance data analytics and computing
• Best practices for sustainable software development and scientific application development

Papers should be between 5 and 10 pages in length, including figures, tables and appendices, but not references, for which there are no limits. Contributions should be submitted through the PASC17 online submissions portal at

https://pasc17.pasc-conference.org/submission/submissions-portal/

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

The review process is designed in the following stages:

• January 23, 2017: Submissions close
• February 20, 2017: First review notification
• March 13, 2017: Revised submissions close
• April 11, 2017: Final review notification

PASC17 CONFERENCE AND PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION

Accepted manuscripts will be published in the ACM Digital Library at the time of the PASC17 Conference, June 26-28, 2017. Authors will be given 30-minute presentation slots at the conference, grouped in topically focused parallel sessions.

POST-CONFERENCE JOURNAL SUBMISSION

Following the conference authors will have the opportunity to develop their papers, and, where appropriate, associated open-source software, for publication in a relevant, computationally focused, domain-specific journal. The journal paper should be an expanded version of the conference paper (consistent with the ACM policy for major revisions [1]) presenting a more complete description of the work - a fuller introduction, deeper project description, additional results, etc. and may be accompanied by associated open-source software.

To facilitate post-conference journal publications, the PASC Conference has formed collaborative partnerships with a number of high-quality scientific journals, including Computer Physics Communications (CPC) [2], the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) [3], and ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (ACM TOMS) [4]. Members of the journals’ editorial boards will work with the PASC Papers Committee in reviewing PASC papers and in identifying papers to be extended and submitted to partner journals. Authors should communicate their interest in publishing with a partner journal during the review process. The current membership of the PASC Partner Journal Editors Board is as follows.

• Prof. Stan Scott, Computer Physics Communications, Editor-in-Chief & Queen’s University, Belfast
• Dr. Robert Pincus, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), Editor-in-Chief & University of Colorado/ NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
• Dr. Mike Heroux, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), Editor-in-Chief & Sandia National Laboratory

REVIEW PROCESS

The PASC17 Papers Committee, chaired by Dr. Jack Wells (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Prof. Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich), is responsible for reviewing submitted papers. The goal of the paper- selection process is to combine the strengths of the conference and journal publication schemes in order to execute an effective, high- quality publication venue in large-scale computational science. We use four key principles to design a paper selection process for PASC17: (1) no pre-selected review committee, (2) short revision process, (3) double-blind peer-review, and (4) expert reviewers suggested by primary reviewers. For a more detailed discussion of this process see T. Hoefler, ‘Selecting Technical Papers for an Interdisciplinary Conference: The PASC Review Process’, in the Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference (2016) [5]. Papers will be evaluated on their significance, technical soundness, originality, and quality of communication.

Papers should be in the ACM proceedings format [6]. As submissions will be evaluated double blind, authors should not be named and references to previous work should be in the third person. We suggest using “An Author”, “Another Author”, etc., in the ACM templates, and leaving affiliations and contact details blank.

MINISYMPOSIA

A minisymposium at PASC17 is a two-hour session of four presentations on a single topic of current importance that addresses research topics related to domain science, applied mathematics, computer science or software engineering in the context of high performance computing.

The session should include speakers from more than one country, and be designed such that the speakers bring a range of different perspectives and views to the topic. Organizers are strongly encouraged to include women and/or members of other underrepresented groups in their proposals.

Please visit our website for submission guidelines: http://pasc17.pasc-conference.org/submission/submissions-portal/

Deadlines for minisymposium submissions:
8 January: Submissions close
1 February: Acceptance notifications

POSTERS

Guidelines regarding the submission process and access to the online submission system are available at http://www.pasc17.org/submission.

Deadlines for poster submissions:
9 February: Submissions close
28 March: Acceptance notifications

ORGANIZATION

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Olaf Schenk (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)
Horst Simon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

PAPERS CO-CHAIRS

Jack Wells (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

MINISYMPOSIA AND POSTERS CO-CHAIRS

Rolf Krause (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)
Stefan Goedecker (University of Basel, Switzerland)

MINISYMPOSIA TRACK CHAIRS

• Track Chair Chemistry and Materials:
  Anatole von Lilienfeld (University of Basel, Switzerland)
• Track Chair Climate & Weather:
  Peter Bauer (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, UK)
• Track Chair Computer Science & Applied Mathematics:
  Bastien Chopard (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
• Track Chair Emerging Domains in HPC:
  Martin Weiser (Zuse Institute, Germany)
• Track Chair Engineering:
  Michael Puso (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
• Track Chair Life Sciences:
  Igor Pivkin (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)
• Track Chair Physics:
  Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
• Track Chair Solid Earth Dynamics:
  Dimitri Komatitsch (University of Aix-Marseille, France)

Please refer to PASC17 website for further information about the conference and the supporting organization at http://www.pasc17.org.

[1]: To distinguish between a new derivative work and a minor revision, ACM uses, respectively, a rule of greater than or less than 25 percent changed.
[2]: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-physics-communications
[3]: http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1942-2466/
[4]: http://toms.acm.org/
[5]: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2929908
[6]: http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html