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<p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">Dear Users,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">we remind you of this meeting which is taking place in Cineca, Bologna, in March.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">The Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG) is an active</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">community-led forum for sharing industry best practices, techniques, and</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">tools for maximizing efficiency on Intel platforms and products. This</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">meeting will focus on all aspects of employing and adopting many-core</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">processing technologies and techniques for optimal application</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><sp
an style
="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">execution, including topics that cover system hardware beyond the</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">processor (e.g. memory, interconnect); software tools and programming</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">models; and new workloads (e.g. visualization, data analytics, machine</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">learning).</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><strong><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">Call for Presentations</span></strong><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">I
XPUG wel
comes submissions on innovative work from Intel platform and</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">product users in academia, industry and government labs, describing</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">original discoveries and experiences that will promote and prescribe</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">efficient use of many-core and multi-core systems. The authors of the</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">best scored abstracts and draft presentations will be selected for a 30</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">minu
te techn
ical presentation; others may be offered an opportunity to</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">present a shorter 10-15 minute lightning talk.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">For further details on how to submit a contribution please see the</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">conference website </span><span id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1168_com_zimbra_url" class="Object" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1169_com_zimbra_url" class="Object" style="cursor: pointer;"><a style="color: darkblue;" href="https://www.ixpug.org/events/spring2018" target="_blank">https://www.ixpug.org/events/spri
ng2018</
a></span></span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">The conference is free of charge but registration is mandatory (see below).</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">Registration: </span><span id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1170_com_zimbra_url" class="Object" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1171_com_zimbra_url" class="Object" style="cursor: pointer;"><a style="color: darkblue;" href="https://www.ixpug.org/cineca-registration-2018" target="_blank">https://www.ixpug.org/cineca-registration-2018</a></span></span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><span style="
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ily: monospace; font-size: medium;">Agenda: </span><span id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1172_com_zimbra_url" class="Object" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1173_com_zimbra_url" class="Object" style="cursor: pointer;"><a style="color: darkblue;" href="https://www.ixpug.org/events/spring2018" target="_blank">https://www.ixpug.org/events/spring2018</a></span></span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">, more details will be</span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">posted upon abstract selection.</span><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><strong><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">Important dates:</span></strong><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><em><span style="font-family: monospace; fon
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medium;">Abstract submissions open: January 3, 2018</span></em><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><em><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">Abstracts due: February 2, 2018</span></em><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><em><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">Presenters notified: February 14, 2018</span></em><br style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;" /><em><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">Final presentations due: March 2, 2018</span></em></p>
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<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>HPC User Support @ CINECA</p>
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