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* 12th IEEE International Workshop on Data Flow Models *
* and Extreme-Scale Computing (DFM 2022) *
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* Hosted as part of COMPSAC 2021, June 27—July 1, 2022 *
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* Note: depending on the sanitary context, the event may be held in *
* a hybrid fashion. *
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* 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. *
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* Important Dates *
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* Workshop papers due: 7 April, 2022 *
* Workshop paper notifications: 15 May, 2022 *
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* With the advent of true many-core systems, it has become *
* unreasonable to solely rely on control-based parallel models of *
* 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 *
* performance, and scalability in highly parallel and extreme scale *
* programmability, systems, but also power and energy efficiency, as *
* partially) relieve the parallel application programmer from they *
* (at least 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. *
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* Researchers and practitioners all over the world, from both *
* academia and industry, working in the areas of language, system *
* software, and ardware design, parallel computing, execution models, *
* hand resiliency modeling are invited to discuss state of the art *
* solutions, novel issues, recent developments, applications, *
* methodologies, techniques, xperience reports, and tools for the *
* development and use of dataflow models of computation. Topics of *
* interest include, but are not limited to, the following: *
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* - Programming languages and compilers for existing and new *
* languages—in particular single-assigned and functional languages *
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* - System software: Operating systems, runtime systems *
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* - Hardware design: ASICs and reconfigurable computing (FPGAs) *
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* - Resiliency and fault-­tolerance for parallel and distributed *
* systems *
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* - New dataflow inspired execution models — in particular strict and *
* non-strict models *
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* - Hybrid system design for control-flow and data-flow based systems * * *

* - dataflow-based AI architectures and accelerators *
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* - Dataflow-inspired optimizations to ML frameworks, graphs, etc. * * *
* - Position papers on the future of dataflow in the era of many-core *
* systems and beyond *
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* Important Dates *
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* Workshop papers due: 7 April, 2022 *
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* Workshop paper notifications: 15 May, 2022 *
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*********************************************************************** * 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. *
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* 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. *
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* Formatting *
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* 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). *
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