27th IEEE International Parallel &
Distributed Processing Symposium

May 20-24, 2013
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Pre-Conference Announcements

INDUSTRY TALKS ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Local companies will be giving talks on their technology of interest to IPDPS attendees on Wednesday at 1:30 PM. See Advance Program for details (now posted) and check the Patrons & Exhibitors page for full list of commercial participants.

IEEE PRESIDENT ATTENDING IPDPS  TO PRESENT AWARD
Michael L. Kazar, an engineer whose expertise in network file system architectures has strongly influenced today’s cloud storage systems, will be presented with the 2013 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award by IEEE President Peter Staecker on 22 May at IPDPS 2013 during the evening banquet. Get More Details (pdf)

NEW PATRONS ADDED TO ROSTER
Two more companies, Intel and Microsoft, along with Adapteva and Xyratex have joined the roster of commercial participants. Adapteva will be exhibiting and all will be will be making presentations at the Industry Talks Session on Wednesday at 1:30 PM.

ELSEVIER WRITERS WORKSHOP
All IPDPS attendees are invited to attend the Elsevier Author Workshop to be co-located with IPDPS 2013 on Tuesday, May 21st at 4:00 PM at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. The topic is Scientific Publishing: A guide to journal publication and book authorship. Get More Details (pdf)

IPDPS 2013 INVITED SPEAKERS

Tuesday, May 21st
Shekhar Borkar, Intel Corp.
Exascale Computing—a fact or a fiction?

Wednesday, May 22nd
James Demmel, University of California, Berkeley
Communication-Avoiding Algorithms for Linear Algebra and Beyond

Wednesday Symposium Panel
Big Data in 10 Years
Moderator: Raghu Ramakrishnan, Microsoft

Thursday, May 23rd
Josh Simons, VMware
HPC Cloud Bad; HPC in the Cloud Good