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*** Exascale Applications and Software Conference (EASC 2018)
*** Edinburgh, UK. 17-19 April 2018
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You are warmly invited to participate in the 5th Exascale Applications and Software Conference (EASC 2018), to be held in Edinburgh, UK on the 17-19 April 2018.
Please find all details on the conference web page http://www.easc2018.ed.ac.uk/.

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Topics of interest
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The organisers seek novel contributions in all areas associated with applications, tools, software programming models and libraries, and other technologies necessary to exploit future exascale systems.
+ enabling and optimising applications for exascale in any area;
+ developing and enhancing algorithms for exascale systems;
+ aiding the exploitation of massively parallel systems through tools, e.g. performance analysis, debugging, development environments;
+ programming models and libraries for exascale;
+ exascale runtimes and system software;
+ evaluating best practice in HPC concerning large-scale facilities and application execution;
+ novel uses of current generation and future exascale systems;
+ new hardware technologies and their exploitation to solve exascale challenges.

Research and/or experience that brings together current theory and practice is particularly welcome.

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Participation Guidelines
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We seek contributions in the form of a one page abstract for oral or poster presentation.
There will be a prize for the best paper and for the best student contribution. There will be an opportunity to submit papers to a special edition of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-exascale-
applications-and-software-2018). All submissions will be peer-reviewed.
Full details are on the conference webpage http://www.easc2018.ed.ac.uk/submission-guidelines/

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Important dates
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Submissions open: 9th October 2017
Submissions close: 4th December 2017
Author notification: 31st January 2018
Early bird registrations close: 11th March 2018
Regular registrations close: 8th April 2018
Conference begins: 17th April 2018

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More information
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For full information please see the EASC2018 homepage http://www.easc2018.ed.ac.uk

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