FOSDEM'18 HPC, Big Data, and Data Science Devroom Call for Participation Sunday, February 4th, 2018, Brussels, Belgium # Overview We are proud to announce the 3rd edition of the HPC, Big Data and Data Science devroom, co-located with FOSDEM 2018. FOSDEM is an annual conference about free and open source software, attended by over 5000 developers and open-source enthusiasts from all over the world. This devroom is organised by representatives from the HPC and Big Data communities, who are joining forces to bring both communities together.     High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data are two important approaches     to scientific computing. HPC typically deals with smaller, highly structured     data sets and huge amounts of computation while Big Data, not surprisingly,     deals with gigantic, unstructured data sets and focuses on the I/O     bottlenecks. With the Big Data trend unlocking access to an unprecedented     amount of data, Data Science has emerged to tackle the problem of creating     processes and approaches to extracting knowledge or insights from these data     sets. Machine learning and predictive analytics algorithms have joined the     family of more traditional HPC algorithms and are pushing the requirements     of cluster and data scalability.     Free and Open Source communities have been the foundation of the HPC and Big     Data communities for some time. In the HPC community, it should be no     surprise that 498 of the Top500 supercomputers in the world run Linux. On     the Big Data side, the Hadoop ecosystem has had a tremendous amount of Open     Source contributions from a wide range of organizations coming together     under the Apache Software Foundation.     Our goal is to bring the communities together, share expertise, learn how we     can benefit from each other’s work and foster further joint research and     collaboration. We welcome talks about Free and Open Source solutions to the     challenges presented by large scale computing, data management and data     analysis. The devroom will take place on Sunday, February 4th, 2018, at ULB (Campus Solbosch), in Brussels, Belgium. Join us to enjoy a full day of talks, demos and interesting discussions on open-source HPC, Big Data and Data Science. Sounds interesting? Submit your talk proposal below and see you in Brussels! # Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:     Architecture and design of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data     systems     Architecture and design of Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) and data     acquisition pipelines     Data security and governance     Tools and technologies related to HPC and computational science, for     example:         Multithreading (OpenMP, etc.)         Distributed computing (MPI, etc.)         GPGPU computing (OpenCL, OpenACC, etc.)         Parallel filesystems and storage         Large-scale performance analysis and debugging     Computational paradigms for Big Data systems         MapReduce engines         Streaming engines         SQL engines         Dataflow engines     Emerging hardware trends of large scale clusters         Large scale memory pooling         High-speed interconnects         ARM cluster architecture     System administration of HPC and Big Data clusters     User support tools     Machine learning libraries and tools     Scientific software applications, tools and libraries (across all scientific     domains)     Big Data platforms, extensions to existing systems, libraries, APIs     Experience reports on using Big Data systems, for example:         Large-scale deployments         Development and configuration issues         Tuning and performance tips and lessons learned     Interesting Big Data use-cases and applications     Comparative analysis of existing systems, evaluation results, performance     studies     Interdisciplinary HPC/Big Data use-cases, for example:         Applications using both HPC and Big Data technologies         Integration issues         Open research problems on the convergence of HPC and Big Data         Running MPI jobs on Big Data clusters and vice-versa # Submission We invite presenters to submit talk proposals to present high-quality work with sufficient background material to be clear to the HPC, Big Data, and/or Data Science communities. Talk proposals should be submitted through the FOSDEM Pentabarf server. Submissions must include:     Abstract     Session type     Session length     Expected prior knowledge / intended audience     Speaker bio     Links to code / slides / material for the talk (optional)     Links to previous talks by the speaker Our intention is to have a full day of talks of about 20 minutes each, with an additional 5 minutes for questions by attendees. We would also like to note:     Talks will be streamed live and will be recorded. By submitting a session,     speakers agree to being recorded and having their talk made available.     All accepted talks will be about (using) free and open source software. We     highly discourage “marketing” talks. Submit here: <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18> When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the ‘HPC, Big Data, and Data Science Devroom’ as the ‘Track’. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous FOSDEM edition, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, do not despair: contact hpc-bigdata-devroom [at] lists.fosdem.org. # Dates Call for participation available: Thursday October 12th 2017 Call for participation closes: Friday November 24th 2017 Devroom schedule available: Friday December 15th 2017 Devroom date: Sunday February 4th 2018 # Organizers     Kenneth Hoste - HPC team at Ghent University     Vasia Kalavri - ETH Zürich     Roman Shaposhnik Please email hpc-bigdata-devroom@lists.fosdem.org with questions or concerns.