18th Annual IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (IFIP NPC)

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High-Performance Computing and Big Data are two main areas where NPC 2021 will provide a dynamic forum to explore, discuss and debate state-of-the-art technology issues and challenges. High-performance computers and big-data systems are tied inextricably to the broader computing ecosystem and its designs and market adoption.

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The International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC) will take place on November 3-5, 2021 in Paris (ESME Sudria – Campus Paris Centre, 34, rue de Fleurus, 75006 Paris) and online. All information regarding the program, registration, keynotes presentations and venue can be found on the official website of the conference. Registration are open until October 15, 2021.

Program
DAY 1 – November 3, 2021
12:00 LUNCH
13:30 Welcome Speech
Honoring Prof. Gao’s memory
14:00 Invited Talk: Challenges and Changes in HPC
Prof. Yutong Lu, National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou
15-minute break
15:15 Session 1 – Networks / Communications, Resource Management
 

· Taming Congestion and Latency in Low-Diameter High-Performance Datacenters
Renjie Zhou, Dezun Dong, Shan Huang, Zejia Zhou and Yang Bai

· Evaluation of Topology-Aware All-reduce Algorithm for Dragonfly Networks
Junchao Ma, Dezun Dong, Cunlu Li, Ke Wu and Liquan Xiao

· MPICC: Multi-Path INT-based Congestion Control in Datacenter NetworksGuoyuan Yuan, Dezun Dong, Xingyun Qi and Baokang Zhao
15-minute break
16:50 Session 2 – Storage
 

·  A Two Tier Hybrid Metadata Management mechanism for NVM Storage System
Tao Cai, Pengfei Gao, Fuli Chen, Dejiao Niu, Fei Wang, Yueming Ma and Lei Li

· A Novel CFLRU-based Cache Management Approach for NAND-based SSDs
Haodong Lin, Jun Li, Zhibing Sha, Zhigang Cai, Jianwei Liao and Yuanquan Shi
17:45 Conclusion – Day 1
DAY 2 – November 4, 2021
12:00 LUNCH
13:30 Session 1A
Algorithms & Applications		 Session 1B
System Software & Resource Management I
 

·  XSP: Fast SSSP Based on Communication-Computation Collaboration
Xinbiao Gan, Wen Tan, Menghan Jia, Jie Liu and Yiming Zhang

· A Class Of Fast And Accurate Multi-layer Block Summation And Dot Product Algorithms
Kang He, Roberto Barrio, Lin Chen, Hao Jiang, Jie Liu, Tongxiang Gu and Jin Qi

· A KNN Query Method for Autonomous Driving Sensor Data
Jie Tang, Jiehui Zhang, Zhixin Zeng and Shaoshan Liu.

·  A Novel Task-Allocation Framework based on Decision-Tree Classification Algorithm in MEC
Wenwen Liu, Zhaoyang Yu, Meng Yan, Gang Wang and Xiaoguang Liu

· QoS-Aware Scheduling for Cellular Networks Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Jonathan Robert Malin, Gun Ko and Won Woo Ro

· Adaptive Buffering Scheme for PCM/DRAM-Based Hybrid Memory Architecture
Xiaoliang Wang, Kaimeng Chen and Peiquan Jin

15-minute break
15:05 Best Papers Session 1
 

· Data Delta Based Hybrid Writes for Erasure-Coded Storage Systems
Koei Watanabe, Kohei Kikuchi, Taisuke Boku, Takuto Sato and Hiroyuki Kusaka

· Scalable Algorithms Using Sparse Storage for Parallel Spectral Clustering on GPU
Tianyu Feng, Siyan Chen, Xin You, Shuzhang Zhong, Hailong Yang, Zhongzhi Luan and Depei Qian

· BDCuckoo: An Efficient Cuckoo Hash for BlockDevice
Yanghai Wang, Shuo Ouyang, Dezun Dong, Enda Yu and Xiangke Liao
15-minute break
16:40 Invited Talk: Data-centric compute architectures and challenges
Prof. Avi Mendelson, Technion, Israel
17:40 Conclusion – Day 2
Additional instructions for social event
19:00 Social Event / Dinner
DAY 3 – November 5, 2021
12:00 LUNCH
13:30 Invited Talk: Resilient Scheduling for High-Performance Computing
Prof. Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon, France
15-minute break
14:45 Session  1– System Software & Ressource Management II
 

·  Efficiency-First Fault-Tolerant Replica Scheduling Strategy for Reliability Constrained Cloud Application
Yingxue Zhang, Guisheng Fan, Huiqun Yu and Xingpeng Chen

· Towards an Optimized Containerization of HPC Job Schedulers based on Namespaces
Tarek Menouer, Nicolas Greneche, Christophe Cérin and Patrice Darmon

· Architecture of an On-time Data Transfer Framework in Cooperation with Scheduler System
Kohei Yamamoto, Arata Endo and Susumu Date
15-minute break
16:20 Best Papers Session #2
 

· High Resolution of City-Level Climate Simulation by GPU with Multi-Physical Phenomena
Koei Watanabe, Kohei Kikuchi, Taisuke Boku, Takuto Sato and Hiroyuki Kusaka

· dgQuEST: Distributed-GPU Accelerated Large Scale Quantum Circuit Simulation
Tianyu Feng, Siyan Chen, Xin You, Shuzhang Zhong, Hailong Yang, Zhongzhi Luan and Depei Qian

· vSketchDLC: A Sketch on Distributed Deep Learning Communication via Fine-grained Tracing Visualization
Yanghai Wang, Shuo Ouyang, Dezun Dong, Enda Yu and Xiangke Liao
17:40 Conclusion – Day 3 – NPC 2021
Registration

As NPC 2021 will be hybrid (on-site and remote), they have re-structured the registration fees to accommodate all travel and health constraints.

NPC 2021 On Site Registration

Authors Registration by October 15, 2021

  • NPC 2021 Authors (On site): EUR 450,00
  • NPC 2021 Participants (On site): EUR 450,00

NPC 2021 On Site Registration

NPC 2021 Remote Registration

Authors Registration by October 15, 2021

  • NPC 2021 Authors (Remote): EUR 450,00
  • NPC 2021 Participants (Remote): EUR 50,00

NPC 2021 Remote Registration

All the Registration Fees (rates) given in the tables are in EUR French VAT Included.

Each accepted papers should be registered with “Authors rate” by at least one paper’s author

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