ExHET 2024: The 3rd International Workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity Solutions
to be held in conjunction with PPoPP 2024

Sat 2 - Wed 6 March 2024
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

[Introduction]
While computing technologies have remained relatively stable for nearly two decades, new architectural features, such as specialized hardware, heterogeneous cores, deep memory hierarchies, and near-memory processing, have emerged as possible solutions to address the concerns of energy efficiency, manufacturability, and cost. However, we expect this ‘golden age’ of architectural change to lead to extreme heterogeneity and it will have a major impact on software systems and applications. In this upcoming exascale and extreme heterogeneity era, it will be critical to explore new software approaches that will enable us to effectively exploit this diverse hardware to advance science, the next-generation systems with heterogeneous elements will need to accommodate complex workflows. This is mainly due to the many forms of heterogeneous accelerators (no longer just GPU accelerators) in this heterogeneous era, and the need to map different parts of an application onto elements most appropriate for that application component.

[Objectives, scope, and topics of the workshop]
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss new and emerging solutions to address these important challenges from the upcoming extreme heterogeneity era. Papers are being sought on many aspects of heterogeneous computing including (but not limited to):

Heterogeneous Programming Environments and Runtime Systems
--Programming models and systems
--Parallel resource management on heterogeneous systems
--Automated parallelization and compiler techniques (Autotuning)
Heterogeneous Solutions for HPC and Scientific Applications
--Parallel and distributed algorithms
--Parallel libraries and frameworks
--Parallel processing on heterogeneous systems
Heterogeneous (including Non-von Neuman) Architectures
--Power/energy management
--Heterogeneous architectures for emerging application domains
--Architecture designs including Non-von Neuman architectures, memory, and interconnection
Reliability/Benchmarking/Measurements
--Debugging, performance tools and techniques
--Fault tolerance and resilience
--Application/hardware benchmarks

[Important Dates]
-Paper submission deadline (final): December 29, 2023
-Notification of acceptance: January 12, 2024
-Camera-ready papers due: February 16, 2024
-Workshop day: TBD, 2024

[Steering Committee]
Jeffrey S. Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Olivier Aumage, INRIA, France
Manuel Prieto, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
Hartwig Anzt, ICL at UTK, USA
Stanimire Tomov, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA
Antonio J. Pena, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain, Spain

[Organizers (Contact us)]
Pedro Valero-Lara (co-chair)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
valerolarap at ornl.gov

Seyong Lee (co-chair)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
lees2 at ornl.gov

Gokcen Kestor (co-chair)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of California Merced, USA
gokcen.kestor at pnnl.gov

Monil Mohammad Alaul Haque (proceeding chair)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
monilm at ornl.gov

Jose Manuel Monsalve Diaz (publicity chair)
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
jmonsalvediaz at ornl.gov

Simon Garcia de Gonzalo (web chair)
Sandia National Laboratory, USA
simgarc at ornl.gov

[Programme Committee]
William F. Godoy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Guray Ozen, Google, USA
Juan Gomez-Luna, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jaewoong Sim, Seoul National University, Korea
Ali Akoglu, Arizona State University, USA
Naoya Maruyama, NVIDIA, USA
Jose Manuel Monsalve, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Monil Mohammad Alaul Haque, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Het Mankad, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Simon Garcia de Gonzalo, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Marc Gonzalez-Tallada, Universitat Politecnica de Catalonia, Spain

[Manuscript submission]
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. Papers must not exceed 6 pages in standard ACM two-column conference format. ACM templates for Microsoft Word and LaTeX are available here. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=exhet2024

[Proceedings]
All accepted papers will be published in the ExHET-PPoPP Workshops 2024 proceedings by the ACM Digital Library.

[Best Paper Award]
The Best Paper Award will be selected on the basis of explicit recommendations of the reviewers and their scoring towards the paper’s originality and quality.

[Special Issue Journal]
Selected best papers of ExHET will be considered for publication in a special issue of the international journal Applied Sciences (IF: 2.838).