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<span style="color:black">This is a reminder of the<b> paper submission deadline for the Special Section of IEEE TPDS on “Innovative R&D toward the Exascale Era”:</b></span><b><span style="color:#333333"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Submission deadline: February 17, 2021 </b><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Please be sure to choose the tag “SS on Innovative R&D toward the Exascale Era’’ when submitting your paper to the ScholarOne system.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Extended submission deadline: February 24, 2021 (no further extensions)<o:p></o:p></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
First-round review notification: April 7, 2021<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="color:black">This special section will focus on new foundational and translational research toward enabling exascale computing for emerging scientific and societal challenges. Contributions highlighting fundamental advances in software technologies
and applications over the current state-of-the art will be considered. Submissions addressing challenges that are unique to exascale computing, from application and algorithm development to reliability and availability of operational IT infrastructure, are
within the scope of the special section. </span><span style="color:#333333"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">More details are available in the call for papers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.computer.org%2Fdigital-library%2Fjournals%2Ftd%2Fcall-for-papers-special-section-on-innovative-rd-toward-the-exascale-era&data=02%7C01%7Cparashar%40ored.rutgers.edu%7C25b595f8138b447a178608d86a375466%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C1%7C637376133163007287&sdata=7bo%2BB58ud7F%2FHA6t%2FL6vjIWcpfB%2BQIG%2BpmInu6ppEvg%3D&reserved=0"><b><span style="color:#954F72">https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/td/call-for-papers-special-section-on-innovative-rd-toward-the-exascale-era</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">We welcome submissions to this special section and would be glad to address any questions you may have. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Sadaf Alam, Lois Curfman McInnes and Kengo Nakajima<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Co-editors of IEEE TPDS - Special Section on Innovative R&D toward the Exascale Era<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Sadaf Alam (</span><span style="color:purple">alam@cscs.ch</span><span style="color:black">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">Lois Curfman McInnes (</span><span style="color:purple">curfman@anl.gov</span><span style="color:black">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Kengo Nakajima (<a href="mailto:nakajima@cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp"><span style="color:#1155CC">nakajima@cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp</span></a>)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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