The 8th IEEE International Workshop on Data Flow Models & Extreme-Scale Computing (DFM 2021)

Call for Papers


The DFM workshop aims to highlight advancements to event-driven and data-driven models of computation for extreme scale computing, parallel and distributed computing for high-performance computing, and high-end embedded and cyber-physical systems. It also aims at fostering exchanges between dataflow practitioners, both at the theoretical and practical levels.

With the advent of true many-core systems, it has become unreasonable to solely rely on control-based parallel models of computation to achieve high scalability. Dataflow-inspired models of computation, once discarded by the sequential programming crowd, are once again considered serious contenders to help increase programmability, performance, and scalability in highly parallel and extreme scale systems, but also power and energy efficiency, as they (at least partially) relieve the parallel application programmer from performing tedious and perilous synchronization bookkeeping, but also provide clear scheduling points for the system software and hardware. They are also an invaluable tool for high-end embedded computing to deal with real-time constraints. However, to reach such high scalability levels, extreme scale systems rely on heterogeneity, hierarchical memory subsystems, etc.Meanwhile, legacy programming and execution models, such as MPI and OpenMP, add asynchronous and data-driven constructs to their models, all the while trying to take into account the very complex hardware targeted by parallel applications. Consequently, programming and execution models, trying to combine both legacy control flow-based and dataflow-based aspects of computing, have also become increasingly complex to handle. Developing new models and their implementation, from the application programmer level, to the system level, down to the hardware level is key to provide better data- and event-driven systems which can efficiently exploit the wealth of diversity that composes current high-performance systems, for extreme scale parallel computing. To this end, the whole stack, from the application programming interface down to the hardware must be investigated for programmability, performance, scalability, energy and power efficiency, as well as resiliency and fault-tolerance.

Researchers and practitioners all over the world, from both academia and industry, working in the areas of language, system software, and hardware design, parallel computing, execution models, and resiliency modeling are invited to discuss state of the art solutions, novel issues, recent developments, applications, methodologies, techniques, experience reports, and tools for the development and use of dataflow models of computation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Programming languages and compilers for existing and new languages — in particular single-assigned and functional languages
  • System software: Operating systems, runtime systems
  • Hardware design: ASICs and reconfigurable computing (FPGAs)
  • Resiliency and fault-­tolerance for parallel and distributed systems
  • New dataflow inspired execution models — in particular strict and non-strict models
  • Hybrid system design for control-flow and data-flow based systems
  • Position papers on the future of dataflow in the era of many-core systems and beyond

Important Dates


Workshop papers due: 21 April 1 May 2021 (UPDATED)

Workshop paper notifications: 15 May 2021

Camera-ready and registration due: 31 May 2021


Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research work, as well as industrial practice reports. Simultaneous submission to other publication venues is not permitted.  In accordance with IEEE policy, submitted manuscripts will be checked for plagiarism. Instances of alleged misconduct will be handled according to the IEEE Publication Services and Product Board Operations Manual.

Please note that in order to ensure the fairness of the review process, COMPSAC follows the double-blind review procedure. Therefore we kindly ask authors to remove their names, affiliations and contacts from the header of their papers in the review version. Please also redact all references to authors’ names, affiliations or prior works from the paper when submitting papers for review. Once accepted, authors can then include their names, affiliations and contacts in the camera-ready revision of the paper, and put the references to their prior works back.

Formatting


Workshop papers are limited to 6 pages. Page limits are inclusive of tables, figures, appendices, and references. Workshop papers can add an additional 2 pages with additional page charges ($250USD/page).

Paper Templates


IEEE Paper templates are available in MS Word 2003 and LaTex. All submissions must use US 8.5×11 letter page format.



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Workshop Organizer


Stéphane Zuckerman
Laboratoire ETIS — Université Paris-Seine, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, ENSEA, CNRS
Email: stephane.zuckerman@u-cergy.fr

Program Committee


Stéphane Zuckerman, CY Cergy Paris Université

John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena

Sven-Bodo Scholz, Heriot-Watt University

Guang R Gao, Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Laboratory, University of Delaware

Robert Clay, Sandia National Labs

Jean-Luc, University of California, Irvine

Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside

Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology