Participate

Workshop participation will be based on the submission of a short position statement due by February 23rd, 2017.
Position statements can be submitted to the workshop via the CMT conference management service. You will need to create an account if you don’t already have one.
The position statement should be in the form of a slide or a 1-page position paper (anything after the first slide or the first page will be disregarded) and should make a strong, provocative — but justified — statement about capabilities or challenges relating to what an online data analysis platform should look like, how it should be built, what properties it should have, what challenges are the most important to solve to build it, or simply a position on how the existing technologies should change given changes in workload patterns.
Some examples of potential position statements might be: “in 5 years 20% of supercomputing workload will come from on-demand jobs”, “networks are the supercomputers of the future”, “in 5 years all supercomputing will be based on virtual machines/containers”, or “HPC is dying and MPI is killing it”. We hope to see a lot of controversy and discussion!
The submitters will be asked to choose one of the following areas as primary and secondary areas describing their position statement:

• Data: data-centric abstractions, incremental statistics, feature detection and machine learning, visual analytics, decision support, human in the loop
• Frameworks: malleable systems, runtime systems, workflow systems, many-task systems
• Network: wide-area network management, software defined networking and exchanges, quality of service in networking, orchestration, analytics, superfacility
• Resource management: datacenter management, management of distributed resources, negotiation, incentives, scheduling
• Security: short- and long-term data integrity, data privacy risks (from distinct and aggregated data), privacy-preserving computation, cyber-physical systems security related to sensors, network security
• Storage: storage structure, configuration, and algorithms, storage hierarchies, QoS in storage
• Systems: Operating systems, virtualization, containers, interconnect, working with accelerators, etc.

The position statements will be reviewed for their originality and quality of argument. Authors of accepted position statements will be invited to attend the workshop to present their ideas in person in a lightning talk session. Only one author per paper (the corresponding author as identified in each submission) will be invited to attend.
If you are unable to attend the workshop but would like to participate by all means submit a position statement but please indicate that you will not attend so that we can give this spot to somebody who can. We will consider those paper in in report writing — although of course physical attendance will give you more opportunity to argue for your views. An option in the submission system will allow you to identify whether you would like to attend or just submit the paper.