Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation
of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS18)

held as part of ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2018 (SC18), Dallas, TX, USA

9th IEEE International Workshop on
The PMBS18 workshop is concerned with the comparison of high-performance computer systems through performance modeling, benchmarking or through the use of tools such as simulators.

We are particularly interested in research which reports the ability to measure and make tradeoffs in software/hardware co-design to improve sustained application performance. We are also keen to capture the assessment of future systems, for example through work that ensures continued application scalability through peta- and exa-scale systems.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, from industry and academia, concerned with the qualitative and quantitative evaluation and modeling of high-performance computing systems. Authors are invited to submit novel research in all areas of performance modeling, benchmarking and simulation, and we welcome research that brings together current theory and practice. We recognize that the coverage of the term performance has broadened to include power consumption and reliability, and that performance modeling is practiced through analytical methods and approaches based on software tools and simulators.

We encourage submissions in the following areas:

Performance modeling, analysis, and prediction of applications and high-performance computing systems
Novel techniques and tools for performance evaluation and prediction
Advanced simulation techniques and tools
Micro-benchmarking, application benchmarking and tracing
Performance-driven code optimization and scalability analysis
Verification and validation of performance models
Benchmarking and performance analysis of novel hardware
Performance concerns in software/hardware co-design
Tuning and auto-tuning of HPC applications and algorithms
Benchmark suites
Performance visualization
Real-world case studies
Studies of manycore architectures such as NVIDIA GPUs
Work which examines similar topics will also be considered.

Information on how to submit a paper including correct formatting, page length etc can be found here.

Important Workshop Dates:

August 31st 2018 (23:59 AoE) - Full Paper Submissions
September 28th 2018 - Full Paper Notifications
September 26th 2018 (23:59 AoE) - Late Breaking and Short Paper Submissions
October 5th 2018 - Late Breaking and Short Paper Notifications
October 5th 2018 - Camera Ready Papers Due
November 12th 2018 - PMBS18 Workshop
Previous Workshop Information:

PMBS10 Workshop (New Orleans, LA)
PMBS11 Workshop (Seattle, WA)
PMBS12 Workshop (Salt Lake City, UT)
PMBS13 Workshop (Denver, CO)
PMBS14 Workshop (New Orleans, LA)
PMBS15 Workshop (Austin, TX)
PMBS16 Workshop (Salt Lake City, UT)
PMBS17 Workshop (Denver, CO)

Papers from Previous PMBS Workshops:

PMBS10 (ACM Performance Evaluation Review Volume 38 Issue 4)
PMBS11 (ACM Performance Evaluation Review Volume 40 Issue 2)
PMBS12 (IEEE SC Companion 2012)
PMBS13 (Springer LNCS 8551)
PMBS14 (Springer LNCS 8966)
PMBS15 (ACM SIGHPC SC Companion 2015)
PMBS16 (ACM SIGHPC SC Companion 2016)
PMBS17 (Springer LNCS 10724)