Submission Types: Full papers (strongly preferred) or extended abstracts

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Submissions of both full papers and extended abstracts are permitted. Full papers of 5–8 pages are strongly preferred; extended abstracts should be at least 2 and no more than 4 pages. Authors with papers or extended abstracts accepted in the paper tracks must have at least one author attend the conference to make a 30-minute presentation. Extended abstracts can be included in the proceedings, but will not be entitled to submit full papers to the proceedings or be considered for the special journal issues.  

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Student papers—Please indicate if the primary author is a student on your submission. To qualify, the work must be primarily the student's, the student must be the primary author, and the student must present the paper at the conference.

• Technology: This track will focus on technology and infrastructure developments, practices, and experiences that enable increased performance, capability, productivity, usability or reliability of digital resources. Topics may include, but are not limited to, compute and storage systems, grid middleware, cybersecurity, job schedulers, tracking and monitoring practices and tools, workflow solutions, green computing, networking and data management. Submissions should describe both the technology and its impact. Submissions related to any advanced research computing environment are welcome.

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• Software and Data: This track will focus on practices and experiences related to software and data environments that enable the effective use, access, or operation of advanced research computing. Topics may include, but are not limited to, science gateways, middleware and community codes spanning the sciences, engineering, humanities and social sciences. Submissions can highlight strategies and approaches to software integration; modular frameworks; cybersecurity issues; software, data and computation management; and engagement of user communities. Submissions should also include details of software and data requirements, design strategies, architecture, implementation, deployment and sustainability.

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• Workforce, Diversity, and Evaluation: This track will focus on workforce development and diversity efforts for engaging and sustaining a diverse scientific, academic and industrial workforce in all fields of study. Submissions should represent evidence-based efforts that help advance computational and data-enabled research or education by recruiting and preparing current and future generations to advance scientific discovery through the use of cyberinfrastructure. Submissions are especially encouraged that address the inclusion of traditionally under-represented communities (including women, minorities, people with disabilities, institutions and disciplines).

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• Accelerating Discovery in Scholarly Research: This track will emphasize the practices and experiences in facilitating and enabling scholarship via advanced research computing. Submissions may highlight computational approaches employed (algorithms, techniques, software, models, etc.), should explain how advanced research computing enabled or enhanced the scholarly accomplishments, and discuss how the work may apply beyond the original work. Submissions to this track may include case studies of computational practices and environments that helped advance state-of-the-art research. It is not expected that submissions will include detailed discussion of original domain-focused research results.