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International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench) http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html

Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2019, Denver, Colorado, USA

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Introduction ----------------

Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental activities in human being's lives. This symposium (Bench 19) is organized by International Open Benchmarking Council (BenchCouncil), and the main theme is benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing Big Data or AI in HPC, Datacenter, IoT, and Edge Computing.

Bench 19 provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. Bench 19 has two special events: the AI benchmarking reports (benchmarks, performance numbers), and the AI system and algorithm competitions ( http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/index.html ). Also, we will invite speakers from China, US, Europe and Japan on HPC AI topics.

We provide two submission opportunities.

For regular submission, we solicit papers describing original and previously unpublished research. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. **Benchmark, measurement, and optimization of: **Benchmark specifications and open-source implementation reports of: ** Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms, and tools in benchmark, measurement, and optimization for: ** Benchmark-driven domain-specific co-design of: ** Testbed methodologies and systems of: ** Workload characterization of: -Big Data -AI -HPC -Machine learning in HPC -Big scientific data -Datacenter -Cloud -Warehouse-scale computing -Mobile robotics -Edge and fog computing -IoT For the AI system and algorithms challenge( http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/index.html ), each team is welcomed to submit a paper describing their work. Their paper will be reviewed for further recommendation. For the winner final lists, each team has to submit a paper and presents their work at Bench 19.

Paper Submission ------------------------

Papers must be submitted in PDF. Short papers (no more than 4 pages in standard two-column IEEE conference format or 6 pages in LNCS format, not including references) are encouraged, and the authors can extend their short paper to 12 pages in LNCS format, not including references, in the final publication. If a full paper is submitted, the page limit is 8 pages in standard two-column IEEE conference format or 12 pages in LNCS format, not including references. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. After the conference, revised papers will be published by Springer (Pending).

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bench19

Improtant Dates ---------------------

Regular submission

Paper Submission July 15, 2019 (Anywhere on Earth) Acceptance Notification Aug 20, 2019

AI competitions

Paper submission: Sep 1, 2019 Acceptance Notification: Sep 15, 2019

Awards ----------

At Bench'19, several important awards will be given, which include:

* BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3,000) - This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is eligible for BenchCouncil Fellow.

* BenchCouncil System Award ($3,000) - This award recognizes a group of scientists and engineers who has made significant contributions to the design, implementation of a state-of-the-art or state-of-the-practice system.

* BenchCouncil Contribution Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to the benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing community.

* BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences, which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing.

Organization -----------------

General Chairs Dan Stanzione (Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin) Xiaoyi Lu (The Ohio State University)

TPC Chairs Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University)

Publications Chair Chen Zheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)

Award Committees Lizy Kurian John (The University of Texas at Austin) D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Competition Chairs Jidong Zhai (Tsinghua University) Xiaoyi Lu (The Ohio State University) Wanling Gao (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)

Publicity Chairs Zhen Jia (Princeton University) Wanling Gao (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)

Web Chair Jiahui Dai (Beijing Academy of Frontier Sciences and Technology)

Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------------

Haiying Shen, University of Virginia Woongki Baek, UNIST Zheng Cao, Alibaba Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville Khaled Ibrahim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Li Zha, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Lei Wang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster Gwangsun Kim, POSTECH Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Zhen Jia, Princeton University Weijia Xu, The University of Texas at Austin Bin Ren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lucas Mello Schnorr, UFRGS Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines Jungang Xu, College of Computer and Control Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Saliya Ekanayake, Virginia Tech Zujie Ren, Zhejiang University Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Guang R Gao, Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Laboratory, Unversity of Delaware