"Stepping forward to the Post Moore Era together"

"Integration of HPC & AI"

"Towards HPC Asia-Pacific/Pacific-Rim"

Photo: Supercomputer Fugaku in R-CCS (copyright © RIKEN)

Welcome to HPC Asia 2022

High performance computing (HPC) is a key technology to solve large problems in science, engineering, and business by utilizing computing power that has been continuously evolving. The International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPC Asia) is an international conference series on HPC technologies in the Asia Pacific region, fostering exchange of ideas, research results and case studies related to all issues of high performance computing.

The 5th edition, HPC Asia 2022 will be held with the motto "Stepping forward to the Post Moore Era together." Although we are now entering the Exascale era, the Post Moore era will soon follow, and HPC Asia 2022 will provide a unique opportunity to discuss the challenges towards the Post Moore era. In addition, we need to pay close attention to the integration of HPC and AI: while the “convergence” of HPC and AI has been broadly discussed, the intensive "integration" of those will be essential towards computing in the Post Moore era.

Past HPC Asia

• HPC Asia 2018 in Tokyo, Japan (Jan 29 - 31, 2018)
• HPC Asia 2019 in Guangzhou, China (Jan 14 - 16, 2019)
• HPC Asia 2020 in Fukuoka, Japan (Jan 15 - 17, 2020)
• HPC Asia 2021 in Jeju, South Korea (Jan 20 - 22, 2021)

Host Organizations

• Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
• RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS)
• Kobe University

In cooperation with

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

SIGHPC

Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

Sponsors

To be announced.

Contact

• hpcasia2022 [at] sighpc.ipsj.or.jp

Submission

Call for Papers

Scope and Topics

High performance computing is a key technology to solve large problems in science, engineering, and business by utilizing continuously evolving computing power. HPCAsia, which is an international conference series on HPC technologies in the Asia Pacific region, has been held several times in various countries in Asia, to discuss issues in HPC and to exchange information on research and development results. Following the success of the past HPC Asia conferences, HPCAsia2022 seeks to nurture an exchange of ideas, case studies, and research results related to all issues of HPC. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Applications and Algorithms

• High performance applications (high speed, low memory, low power simulations)
• Computational science
• Numerical linear algebra and its applications
• High performance library and software framework for applications
• Parallel and vectorization algorithms
• Hybrid/heterogeneous/accelerated algorithms
• Fault-tolerant algorithms
• Graph algorithms

Programming Models and Systems Software

• Programming languages and compilation techniques
• Tools and libraries for performance and productivity
• Performance portability
• System management, resource management and scheduler
• Optimization for communication and memory
• Techniques for testing, debugging, reproducibility and determinism
• Techniques for fault tolerance and energy efficiency

Data, Storage and Visualization

• Big data processing with emerging hardware
• Parallel and distributed file systems
• Storage networks
• Storage systems
• Visualization and image processing
• Reliability and fault tolerance
• Scalable data management
• Transaction processing
• Integration of non-volatile memory
• I/O performance tuning, benchmarking and evaluation
• Provenance
• Experience and application studies on large-scale storage architectures

Architectures and Networks

• Memory architectures
• Interconnect/Network architectures
• Acceleration technologies (e.g., GPUs, FPGAs)
• Power/Energy-aware high-performance computing
• Dependable high-performance computing
• Architectures for emerging device technologies

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 10 pages in PDF format including figures and references, formatted according to the ACM Proceedings Style (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) and submitted through Linklings (https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/HPCAsia/). Submitted papers must contain original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or journal. The review process is single-blind. There will be no revision/rebuttal stage.

Proceedings

To be announced.

Contact

Please contact the Program Chairs (hpcasia2022pc [at] cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for any questions/clarifications.

Call for Posters

To be announced.

Call for Workshop Proposals

To be announced.

Schedule (AoE)

• Workshop proposal deadline: TBD
• Abstract submissions due: August 6, 2021
• Paper: Submissions due: August 13, 2021
• Paper: Notification of Acceptance: October 14, 2021
• Paper: Camera-ready papers due: November 1, 2021
• Poster: 1-page extended abstract submission due: TBD
• Poster: Notification of acceptance: TBD
• Conference: January 12 (Wed) - 14 (Fri), 2022

Committees

Organizing Committee

• General Chair: Kengo Nakajima (U. Tokyo / RIKEN R-CCS)
• General Vice-Chair: Miwako Tsuji (RIKEN R-CCS)
• Program Co-Chair: Osni Marques (LBNL)
• Program Co-Chair: Kento Sato (RIKEN R-CCS)
• Local Arrangement Co-Chair: Hitoshi Murai (RIKEN R-CCS)
• Local Arrangement Co-Chair: Hideyuki Usui (Kobe U.)
• PC Deputy-Chair: Tetsuya Hoshino (U. Tokyo)
• Proceedings Chair: Daisuke Takahashi (U. Tsukuba)
• WS Chair: Masashi Horikoshi (Intel)
• Poster Chair: Takeshi Fukaya (Hokkaido U.)
• Exhibition Co-Chair: Shinji Sumimoto (Fujitsu)
• Exhibition Co-Chair: Takaaki Miyajima (Meiji U.)
• Finance Chair: Atsuko Takefusa (NII)
• Publicity Chair: Daichi Mukunoki (RIKEN R-CCS)
• Liaison/IPSJ HPC: Takeshi Iwashita (Hokkaido U.)
• Liaison/Steering Committee: Taisuke Boku (U. Tsukuba)
• Digital Chair: Ryohei Kobayashi (U. Tsukuba)

Steering Committee

• Chair: Taisuke Boku (U. Tsukuba)
• Takeshi Iwasita (U. Hokkaido)
• Satoshi Matsuoka (RIKEN R-CCS)
• Hiroshi Nakashima (U. Kyoto)
• Mitsuhisa Sato (RIKEN R-CCS, U. Tsukuba)
• David Abramson (U. Queensland)
• Pavan Balaji (Facebook)
• Wuchun Feng (Virginia Tech.)
• Soonwook Hwang (KISTI)
• Jaejin Lee (SNU)
• Fang Pang Lin (NCHPC)
• Serge Petiton (MDLS)
• Yutong Lu (GZSC)
• Bernd Mohr (JSC)
• Depei Qian (Beihang U.)
• Putchong Uthayopass (Kasetsart U.)
• Jeffery Vetter (ORNL)

Track Charis

Application & Algorithms

• Rio Yokota (Titech)
• Christophe Calvin (CEA)
• Tetsuya Sakurai (U. Tsukuba)

Programming Models & System Software

• Rajeev Thakur (ANL)
• Barbara Chapman (Stony Brook U.)

Data, Storage & Visualization

• Gabriel Antoniu (INRIA Renne)
• Bodgan Nicolae (ANL)

Architecture & Networks

• Mariam Kiran (LBNL)
• Eishi Arima (U. Tokyo)

Venue

Conference Venue

The conference will be held either fully online or hybrid (online + onsite in Kobe) depending on the latest Covid situation. If it is possible to be held with the hybrid format, the conference venue will be the following locations.

• RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) (access maps in R-CCS website)):
  The home of national flagship supercomputers in Japan: the K computer (2011-2019) and the Supercomputer Fugaku (2021-present).
• Integrated Research Center of Kobe University:
  Located next to the R-CCS building.

R-CCS building

Supercomputer Fugaku

K computer (2011-2019)

Photos: Copyright © RIKEN

Kobe, Japan

Kobe is the capital of Hyogo Prefecture, with a population of 1.5 million, and is located about 30 kilometers west of Osaka, the second largest city in Japan. Surrounded by the sea and mountains, Kobe is known as one of Japan's historic international ports, and offers a rich international history and culture, as well as natural beauty of the sea and mountains.

• Official Travel Guide of Kobe

Kobe water front

Port tower

China town

Kobe old foreign settlement

Suma beach

Akashi Kaikyo bridge

Photos of Kobe: Copyright © KOBE TOURISM BUREAU

Program

To be announced.

Workshops

To be announced.

Registration

To be announced.