IPDPS 2021 PhD Forum

IPDPS 2021 PhD Forum Co-Chairs
Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of North Texas, USA)
Akshaye Dhawan (Bloomberg L.P., USA)
Contact: phdforum@ipdps.org

The IEEE Computer Society has created the Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) to advance and coordinate work in the field of high performance computing networking, storage, and analysis concepts, technologies and applications, and to expand the IEEE’s role in this interdisciplinary and pervasive field. The Consortium has launched an Education and Outreach Initiative to coordinate activities, information, and best practices around HPC education/outreach across its member technical committees and the broader community. This includes the coordination of student activities across conferences, and the lead chairs for this initiative will also chair the IPDPS 2021 PhD Forum.

PHD FORUM PROGRAM

The annual IPDPS PhD Forum event will be held virtually in 2021 with the traditional poster presentations by students working toward a PhD in broadly defined areas related to parallel and distributed processing. See the 14 research projects-dissertations accepted for the PhD Forum 2021 program. Download PDF

The conference proceedings will include a compendium of the abstracts for the posters accepted for presentation, and accepted posters will be available to all registrants for viewing on the IPDPS virtual platform. Register here to attend.

The PhD Forum Program will be held virtually on Monday, May 17, 2021.

POSTER GUIDELINES

Forum organizers will be sending the poster authors more details for the preparation and upload of their electronic posters. Some basic guidelines on how to organize your poster include:

• Unlike in-person poster sessions, your poster will be the electronic online version and will be visited individually by conference attendees, so brevity will be helpful in holding the attention of the viewer.
• Posters should be no larger than an A0 paper size (841 x 1189 mm or 33.1 x 46.8 in). If it is horizontally structured, please still fit within the portrait dimensions specified (33.1 x 46.8 in max).
• Be sure the title and organizational affiliations are clear along the top.
• Consider the normal left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading order for English when organizing the contents. Multiple columns are perfectly acceptable
• If there are existing publications by the poster authors on the topic, these should be the only references.
• Balance the amount of graphics and text. A visitor should be able to get the high level view within 1 minute to decide whether to review further and contact you about the research described.
• Graphics should show structure and general measurements that illustrate the results.
• Text should explain things without large paragraphs explaining.
• Text should be large enough to easily read on a tablet screen.
• Assume the viewer is somewhat to generally knowledgeable about the topic eliminating the need for long motivational passages.
• Provide sufficient motivational material to show at a glance the poster authors understand potential impact.
• Compensation for color blindness is important. Design for monochrome, but add color to highlight.