25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Radisson Blu Hotel Bengaluru, India http://www.hipc.org

IMPORTANT DATES https://hipc.org/news-updates/

- Student Research Symposium (SRS) submission deadline extended to September 30 - Author Resources with links to CPS author kit to be posted by October 1 - Camera ready deadlines extended for HiPC (October 15) and HiPC Workshops (October 29) - Author registration deadlines for HiPC and HiPC Workshops extended to October 31 - Student Travel Support - application deadline (November 14) and notification (November 19) - Radisson Blu special HiPC rates guaranteed for reservations by November 20 - Advance Registration deadline - November 21 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------

CONFERENCE PROGRAM & EVENTS

HiPC 2018 is the 25th edition of the IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. It serves as a forum to present current work by top researchers in the field and to highlight the activities in Asia in the area of high performance computing and related scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. To mark 25 years of HiPC, a special lecture and several celebratory events are planned. The conference technical program held on days 2, 3 and 4 will showcase three keynote speakers and three days of single track presentations of 33 peer reviewed papers from all over the world. Tutorials to be held on December 16 will be announced shortly. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Secure High-Performance Computer Architectures: Challenges and Opportunities - Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign High-Performance Computing at the end of Moore’s Law

PLENARY PANEL - Data Centers in India: Challenges and Opportunities: This session will include senior Government officials in India that are seeking to invite Cloud service providers to open Data centers in India and discuss available opportunities. Cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others) will discuss some of the challenges they face with respect to regulation, guaranteed cheap electricity supply, skills, etc. The goal is to get broader discussion on important policy issues that help enable or cripple development of Warehouse scale Data centers in India.

WORKSHOPS Six workshops to be held on the first day of the conference are planned. https://hipc.org/workshops/ - Fourth Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - Parallel Fast Fourier Transforms (PFFT) - see September 30 deadline - Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB) - First Workshop on the Convergence of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence (HPC&AI) - Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing (WDHPC) - Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHiPC) (Posters only: Submission deadline November 9)

STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM SRS is aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry and will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. Submission deadline is September 30. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------

WORKSHOP ON IMPROVING RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION OUTCOMES HiPC and Microsoft along with IISc invites you to the workshop to be held at IISc. Registration and schedule at: https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKfor mID=0x4887561abcd

Venue:CDS Department IISc- Indian Institute of Science CV Raman Rd, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India September 21, 2018, 10AM - 4PM

INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION The conference encourages industry participation in the main technical program and workshops, as well as the Industry, Research and User Symposium (IRUS) and vendor exhibition held on days 2 and 3. Various sponsorship opportunities are available as described at the conference website. Titanium and Platinum sponsors are also provided a forum to drive Industry BOF sessions. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------

General Co-Chairs: Chiranjib Sur, Shell, India and Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA Program Chair, HPC: Olivier Beaumont, Inria, France Program Chair, Data Science: Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Steering Chair: Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------

SPONSORSHIP

HiPC is co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and the HiPC Trust, India

In cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

Industry sponsors & partners include: Microsoft, Intel, NetApp, Google, and Boston. Visit the HiPC website to see full listing of all industry partners and exhibitors.