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

November 03-05, 2021
Paris, France (Hybrid Conference)

  • Important dates

    • Paper Submission Due
      July 25, 2021 (Extended)
    • Notification of Acceptance
      September 3, 2021
    • Camera-Ready Papers due
      September 10 2021
    • Conference Date
      November 3 - 5, 2021
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NPC 2021 Technical 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
Chaired by: Jean-Luc GAUDIOT (Gaudiot@uci.edu)
  · 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 Networks
Guoyuan Yuan, Dezun Dong, Xingyun Qi and Baokang Zhao

15-minute break
16:50 Session 2 – Storage
Chaired by:Stephane ZUCKERMAN (Stephane.zuckerman@cyu.fr)
  ·  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
Qiang Huang, Hui Chen, Bing Wei, Jigang Wu and Limin Xiao

 

· Scalable Algorithms Using Sparse Storage for Parallel Spectral Clustering on GPU
Guanlin He, Stephane Vialle, Nicolas Sylvestre and Marc Baboulin

· BDCuckoo: An Efficient Cuckoo Hash for BlockDevice
Xianqi Zheng, Jia Ma, Yubo Liu and Zhiguang Chen

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: Accelerating Large Scale Quantum Circuit Simulation through Hybrid CPU-GPU Memory Hierarchies
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

 

  • Important dates

    • Paper Submission Due
      July 25, 2021 (Extended)
    • Notification of Acceptance
      September 3, 2021
    • Camera-Ready Papers due
      September 10 2021
    • Conference Date
      November 3 - 5, 2021
  • Technical Co-Sponsor

  • Endorsements

  • Organized by

  • Sponsor

  • Supporting institutions