The intent of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and scientific communities to discuss methods that utilize extreme scale systems for machine learning. This workshop will focus on the greatest challenges in utilizing HPC for machine learning and methods for exploiting data parallelism, model parallelism, ensembles, and parameter search. We invite researchers and practitioners to participate in this workshop to discuss the challenges in using HPC for machine learning and to share the wide range of applications that would benefit from HPC powered machine learning.
In recent years, the models and data available for machine learning (ML) applications have grown dramatically. High performance computing (HPC) offers the opportunity to accelerate performance and deepen understanding of large data sets through machine learning. Current literature and public implementations focus on either cloud-‐based or small-‐scale GPU environments. These implementations do not scale well in HPC environments due to inefficient data movement and network communication within the compute cluster, originating from the significant disparity in the level of parallelism. Additionally, applying machine learning to extreme scale scientific data is largely unexplored. To leverage HPC for ML applications, serious advances will be required in both algorithms and their scalable, parallel implementations.
Authors are invited to submit full papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages. All papers should be formatted using the ACM style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). All accepted papers (subject to post-review revisions) will be published in the ACM digital and IEEE Xplore libraries by ACM SIGHPC. Papers should be submitted using EasyChair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlhpc2016.
Paper templates
Paper submission
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Papers must be written in English and be formatted according to the ACM formatting guidelines linked above and submitted electronically as a PDF file.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed for correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop topics of interest, by at least 3 reviewers. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the MLHPC review process.
All accepted papers (subject to post-review revisions) will be published in the ACM digital and IEEE Xplore libraries by ACM SIGHPC.
UPDATED September 22.
August 22, 2016 August 31, 2016 – Submission deadline
September 22, 2016 September 23, 2016 – Notification of Acceptance
Septmeber 15, 2016 September 30, 2016 – Camera-ready submission due
November 14, 2016– Workshop