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*** Exascale Applications and Software Conference (EASC 2018)
*** Edinburgh, UK. 17-19 April 2018
*** Call for participation
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You are warmly invited to participate in the 5th Exascale Applications and Software Conference (EASC 2018), to be held in Edinburgh, UK on the 17-19 April 2018.

Please find all details on the conference web page http://www.easc2018.ed.ac.uk/

Confirmed speakers: Andreas Olofsson (program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA) and Satoshi Matsuoka (Professor of Global Scientific Information Center and Tokyo Institute of Technology) have confirmed as two of our keynote speakers.

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Topics of interest
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The organisers seek novel contributions in all areas associated with applications, tools, software programming models and libraries, and other technologies necessary to exploit future exascale systems.
+ enabling and optimising applications for exascale in any area;
+ developing and enhancing algorithms for exascale systems;
+ aiding the exploitation of massively parallel systems through tools, e.g. performance analysis, debugging, development environments;
+ programming models and libraries for exascale;
+ exascale runtimes and system software;
+ evaluating best practice in HPC concerning large-scale facilities and application execution;
+ novel uses of current generation and future exascale systems;
+ new hardware technologies and their exploitation to solve exascale challenges.

Research and/or experience that brings together current theory and practice is particularly welcome.

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Participation Guidelines
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We seek contributions in the form of a one page abstract for oral or poster presentation.

There will be a prize for the best paper and for the best student contribution.

There will be an opportunity to submit papers to a special edition of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-exascale-applications-and-software-2018). All submissions will be peer-reviewed. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Full details are on the conference webpage http://www.easc2018.ed.ac.uk/submission-guidelines/

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Important dates
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Submissions open: 9th October 2017
Submissions close: 11th December 2017
Author notification: 31st January 2018
Early bird registrations close: 11th March 2018
Regular registrations close: 8th April 2018
Conference begins: 17th April 2018

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More information
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For full information please see the EASC2018 homepage http://www.easc2018.ed.ac.uk