In the past decade, high-end computing (HEC) architectures have become an important tool in all aspects of scientific discovery. Having ushered in an era where HEC-enabled simulation is considered a third pillar of science along with theory and experiment, HEC architectures have quickly become a credible direction of focused and long-term research. Rapid advances are taking place in different aspects of HEC architectures in an effort to improve performance. Multi- and many-core systems (e.g., Intel, AMD), accelerators (e.g., GPGPUs), high-speed network architectures (e.g., InfiniBand), and integrated computing platforms (Blue Gene, Cray) have been introduced along this effort. Recently, reconfigurable architectures (e.g., FPGAs) have shown dramatic gains in performance and energy for some types of high-performance applications. The growing convergence of HEC and data-driven AI computing is also bringing efficient Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) architectures into the HEC world.

These advances in the fundamental architecture of HEC architectures mean little, however, without appropriate software components that enable high-performance applications to take advantage of these architectures. System software plays a crucial role in exposing the raw performance of the underlying hardware in an efficient manner. Equally important are productive, expressive, portable, and high-performance Parallel Programming models that enable scientists to express parallel algorithms so that they can execute efficiently on various HEC architectures.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing architectures. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop.

The published papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Paper Submission: April 24th, 2020 (Friday), Anywhere on Earth

Author Notification: May 27th, 2020 (Wednesday)

Camera-Ready Copy: July 10, 2020 (Friday)

Video Submission: August 10, 2020 (Monday)

Pitch and Full Slides Submission: August 12, 2020 (Wednesday)

Workshop Dates: August 17th, 2020 (Monday)

The P2S2-2020 workshop papers will be invited to extend the manuscripts to be considered for a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing of the Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE) , edited by John Leidel and Min Si. This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the P2S2 workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only.

P2S2 2018 Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Elsevier International Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO), edited by Min Si, Abhinav Vishnu, and Yong Chen.

P2S2 2017 Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Elsevier International Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO), edited by Pavan Balaji, Abhinav Vishnu, and Yong Chen.

P2S2 2016 Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Elsevier International Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO), edited by Abhinav Vishnu, Yong Chen and Pavan Balaji.

P2S2 2014 Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Elsevier International Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO), edited by Pavan Balaji, Abhinav Vishnu, and Yong Chen.

P2S2 2012 Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Parallel Computing (ParCo), edited by Yong Chen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu.

P2S2 2019 in Kyoto, Japan

P2S2 2018 in Eugene, Oregon

P2S2 2017 in Bristol, UK

P2S2 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

P2S2 2015 in Beijing, China

P2S2 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota

P2S2 2013 in Lyon, France

P2S2 2012 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

P2S2 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan

P2S2 2010 in San Diego, California

P2S2 2009 in Vienna, Austria

P2S2 2008 in Portland, Oregon