CoNGA'24: Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic 2024 ClickMeeting virtual conference portal Virtual, Singapore, February 20-21, 2024 |
| Conference website | https://posithub.org/conga/2024/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=conga24 |
| Abstract registration deadline | January 20, 2024 |
| Submission deadline | January 20, 2024 |
Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA) is the leading conference on emerging technologies for computer arithmetic. The demands of both AI and HPC have led the community to realize that something better than traditional floating-point arithmetic is needed to reach the speed, accuracy, and energy-efficiency that are needed for today's most challenging workloads. In particular, posit arithmetic is achieving rapid adoption as a non-proprietary format, but CoNGA welcomes papers about any arithmetic format that breaks from the past and shows merit and promise.
CoNGA will be held virtually in conjunction with Supercomputing Asia 2024 (SCAasia24), an annual international conference that encompasses an umbrella of notable supercomputing events with the key objective of promoting a vibrant and relevant HPC ecosystem in Asia-Pacific. Co-organised by HPC centres from Australia, Japan, Thailand and Singapore, the SCA24 will be held on 20-21 February 2024 in Sydney, Australia.
However, due to large interest in the topic expressed from the US and European researchers and the difficulty of trans-continental travel, the Organising Committeee decided to run this edition of CoNGA24 as a virtual event.
The event will take place virtually at following tentative times* in different time zones :
Central Europe Time 4:00PM – 10:00PM
Pacific Standard Time 7:00AM – 1:00PM
Australian Eastern Daylight Time 2:00AM – 8:00AM
* subject to the final program and the number of submitted papers and events
The conference is free to any interested participant with access to the internet, anywhere around the globe.
URL to register for Day 1: https://conga24.clickmeeting.com/conga24-day-1/register
URL to register for Day 2: https://conga24.clickmeeting.com/conga24-day-2/register
Submission Guidelines
Submission and review of papers for CoNGA'24 will be managed via the online conference paper management system, EasyChair. This system gives the author flexibility over the paper submission. Authors can upload their papers and check on the review status of their submissions.
All submissions for CoNGA'24 must follow Springer’s LNCS format without changing default margins, fonts, etc. Authors should use the proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. The total page limit is 16 pages excluding references. Supplementary materials that facilitate verification of the results, e.g., source code, proof details, etc., may be appended without a page limit or uploaded as separate files, but reviewers are neither required to read them nor will they be printed in the proceedings. Hence submissions must be complete, intelligible and self-contained within the 16 pages limit. Papers should have page numbers to facilitate their review. In LaTeX, this can be achieved for instance using\pagestyle{plain}. Each submission must be a single PDF file. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Springer also offers a feature for the inclusion of embedded videos in proceedings papers.
In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. It should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference.
For Instructions for Authors of Papers to be Published in Springer Computer Science Proceedings
At least one author of an accepted paper should preferably be available to present the paper at CoNGA'24 (20–21 February 2024, Sydney, Australia) in person.
For more details on the CoNGA'24, please visit https://posithub.org/conga/2024/ (website work in progress)
List of Topics
- Posit & Valid Arithmetic
- Artificial Intelligence Data Formats
- Energy Efficient Arithmetic
- Right Sizing Precision
we also invite proposals for short reports and presentations/tutorials on the following topics:
- Posits libraries and other number coding libraries
- Hardware projects
- Exploring new applications
- New and interesting use cases
- Standarisation efforts
Committees
Program Committee
- Akshat Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Andrew Shewmaker, OpenEye Scientific
- Cerlane Leong, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
- Chung Shin Yee, National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore
- Glenn Matlin, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Hauke Rehr, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- Himeshi De Silva, A*STAR, Singapore
- John Gustafson, Arizona State University
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Laslo Hunhold, University of Cologn
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Marek Michalewicz, National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore
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Marco Cococcioni, University of Pisa
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Peter Lindstrom, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Roman Iakymchuk, Umeå Universitet
Organizing committee
- John Gustafson, Arizona State University
- Himeshi De Silva, Institute of Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
- Cerlane Leong, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
- Marek Michalewicz, National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore