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Special session on
High Performance Computing in Astronomy and Astrophysics http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/astro.html hosted by 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2018) held in Cambridge, UK, March 21-23 2018 ************************************************************************* Call For Papers High Performance Computing is an essential tool in almost all branches of science today and astronomy and astrophysics are no exceptions. For example, large scale computations of complex systems of equations that are either intractable with analytic techniques or require an huge amount of time are one of the key reasons why astrophysicists needs HPC. Furthermore, the exponential increase in the amount of data that will be gathered by future experiments such as LSST, CTA, SKA (more data than the Internet?) is posing a serious challenge to astronomers’ ability to analyze them. The consequence is even increasing interest in parallelizing algorithms and analysis techniques or porting legacy applications to clusters and supercomputers, e.g. those for cosmological simulations, and the use of distributed technologies, Cloud computing, GPUs and other massively parallel architectures as Xeon Phy for the management and processing of large datasets. The aim of this special session is to present the latest efforts in the development of parallel/distributed systems and algorithms and to foster the integration of researchers interested in HPC, astronomy and astrophysics. Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to, experiences in: - Cosmological simulations - Modelling protoplanetary disks and planetary systems - Simulation of plasma phenomena (solar and stellar physics; accretion processes; shocks and jets at all scales) - 3D simulations of supernova explosions and stellar mergers - Big Data challenges: access, (real-time) reduction, analysis, modelling, data mining ************************************************************************* Important dates Paper submission: 3rd November 2017 Acceptance notification: 1st December 2017 Camera ready due: 22nd December 2018 Conference: 21th - 23th Mar 2018 ************************************************************************* Submission guidelines Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track or to Special Sessions through the EasyChair conference submission system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2018 with an indication of the name of the Special Session. Publication All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. ************************************************************************* Contacts Daniele D'Agostino CNR-IMATI, Italy dagostino@ge.imati.cnr.it Andrea De Luca INAF, Italy deluca@lambrate.inaf.it Andrea Tiengo IUSS, Italy andrea.tiengo@iusspavia.it |
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