[IPDPS] IPDPS 2018 - Call for papers and workshops

Thu Aug 24 09:42:27 UTC 2017

32nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
May 21 – May 25, 2018
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Call release: August 23rd, 2017

For more details see: http://www.ipdps.org

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 CALL FOR PAPERS
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SCOPE:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original
unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed
processing, including the development of experimental or commercial
systems. Work focusing on emerging technologies and interdisciplinary
work covering multiple IPDPS areas are especially welcome. Topics of
interest include but are not limited to the following re-defined topic
areas:

* Parallel and distributed computing theory and algorithms
(Algorithms): Design and analysis of novel numerical and combinatorial
parallel algorithms; protocols for resource management; communication
and synchronization on parallel and distributed systems; parallel
algorithms handling power, mobility, and resilience.

* Experiments and practice in parallel and distributed computing
(Experiments): Design and experimental evaluation of applications of
parallel and distributed computing in simulation and analysis;
experiments in the use of novel commercial or research architectures,
accelerators, neuromorphic architectures, and other non-traditional
systems; algorithms for cloud computing; domain-specific parallel and
distributed algorithms; performance modeling and analysis of parallel
and distributed algorithms.

* Programming models, compilers and runtimes for parallel applications
and systems (Programming Models): Parallel programming paradigms,
models and languages; compilers, runtime systems, programming
environments and tools for the support of parallel programming;
parallel software development and productivity.

* System software and middleware for parallel and distributed systems
(System Software): System software support for scientific workflows;
storage and I/O systems; System software for resource management, job
scheduling, and energy-efficiency; frameworks targeting cloud and
distributed systems; system software support for accelerators and
heterogeneous HPC computing systems; interactions between the OS,
runtime, compiler, middleware, and tools; system software support for
fault tolerance and resilience; containers and virtual machines;
system software supporting scalable data analytics, machine learning,
and deep learning; OS and runtime system specialized for high
performance computing and exascale systems; system software for future
novel computing platforms including quantum, neuromorphic, and
bio-inspired computing.

* Architecture: Architectures for instruction-level and thread-level
parallelism; memory technologies and hierarchies; exascale system
designs; data center architectures; novel big data architectures;
special-purpose architectures and accelerators; network and
interconnect architectures; parallel I/O and storage systems;
power-efficient and green computing systems; resilience and dependable
architectures; performance modeling and evaluation.

* Multidisciplinary: Papers that cross the boundaries of the previous
tracks are encouraged and can be submitted to the multidisciplinary
track. During submission of multidisciplinary papers, authors should
indicate their subject areas that can come from any area.
Contributions should either target two or more core areas of parallel
and distributed computing where the whole is larger than sum of its
components, or advance the use of parallel and distributed computing
in other areas of science and engineering.

BEST PAPER AWARDS
The program committee will nominate a few papers for recognition. Upon
presentation at a special session, the best papers will be selected by
a committee.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
A few papers from each area will be selected by the conference chair
and co-chairs and invited for submission to a special issue of JPDC
dedicated to IPDPS. The final paper should have at least 30% extra
material and will be reviewed as any JPDC submission, but fast-tracked
to appear a few months after the conference.

WHAT/WHERE TO SUBMIT
Abstracts must be submitted by October 17th; submitted abstracts may
not exceed 500 words. Manuscripts must be submitted by October 22nd;
submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced
double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages
(IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references.
The submitted manuscripts should include author names and
affiliations.

REVIEW OF MANUSCRIPTS:
All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed. Submissions will be judged
on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance,
potential impact, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance
to the conference scope. Submitted papers should NOT have appeared in
or be under consideration for another conference, workshop or journal.

Questions may be sent to pc2018 at ipdps.org. Abstracts are due October
17, 2017, and full manuscripts must be received by October 22, 2017.
This is a final, hard deadline. To ensure fairness, no extensions will
be given.

Preliminary decisions will be sent by December 8, 2017, with a
decision of either accept, revise, or reject. Authors of “revised”
papers will have the opportunity to revise the content according to
reviewers’ comments and will submit their final paper (together with a
cover letter explaining the changes) by January 8, 2018.  Notification
of final decisions will be mailed by January 22, 2018, and
camera-ready papers will be due February 15, 2018.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Abstracts due:  October 17, 2017
• Submissions due (hard deadline): October 22, 2017
• Author notification  (first round):  December 8, 2017
• Revisions due: January 8, 2018
• Author notification (final): January 22, 2018
• Camera-ready due: February 15, 2018

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 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS   (close deadline!)
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Held on the first and last day of the conference, IPDPS workshops
provide an extended forum that allows the IPDPS community an
opportunity to fully explore special topics and to present work that
is more preliminary and cutting-edge or that has more practical
content than the more mature research presented in the main symposium.
Each workshop has its own requirements and schedule for submissions.
Workshop papers’ submission dates typically fall after the
notification date for the main symposium papers. Proceedings of the
workshops are distributed at the conference and are submitted for
inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference.

The proposals should contain the following information:

* Description: Provide brief description of the workshop, its scope
and topics; the list of organizers with the confirmed chair(s); the
program committee members (indicate whether the members have been
confirmed); and the important dates.

* Organizers: Provide a short vita of the organizers by listing the
current affiliation, position, and previous experience in organizing
other events including workshops/conferences/panels at IPDPS or other
venues.

* History: If re-running (earlier editions were held somewhere other
than IPDPS), provide general information by listing the name of the
workshop, the hosting conference, year, number of papers submitted,
number of papers accepted, number of attendees; if there were
posters/panels, their numbers and topics (for panels), and URL’s of
the existing web pages.

Targeted papers and audience: Provide information on targeted papers
and audience: (i) Where are the papers from (government labs,
universities, industry); (ii) What is the expected profile of the
participants (speakers + audience)? (iii) How will the workshop be
advertised?

Format of the workshop: Provide a short overview of the format by
indicating if the workshop (i) will have peer reviewed papers in the
proceedings? (ii) will be half day or full day long? (iii) will have a
keynote talk? If yes, provide a tentative list of speakers; (iv) will
have a panel? If yes, provide the topic and the potential panelists?
(v) will have external (e.g., NSF) support for student participants.

What/where to submit: The proposals can be submitted using the link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipdpsw18.

Submitted proposals may not exceed three (3) single-spaced
double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages
(IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references.

***IPDPS Workshops from the preceding year(s) should apply for
renewal. For more information, please contact the workshops chair at
workshops at ipdps.org.***

All submitted proposals and renewal requests will be reviewed by the
workshops committee. Both new workshop proposals and renewal requests
are due 1 September 2017. Notification of final decisions for new
proposals and renewal requests are expected to be mailed on 18
September 2017.

Important dates:
September 1st, 2017.......Proposals for New Workshops
September 18th, 2017.....Notifications

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IPDPS 2017 Organization
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GENERAL CHAIR
Bora Uçar (CNRS and ENS Lyon, France)

PROGRAM CHAIR and VICE-CHAIR
Anne Benoit (ENS Lyon, France) and
Ümit V. Çatalyürek (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

WORKSHOPS CHAIR and VICE-CHAIR
Erik Saule (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Jaroslaw Zola (University at Buffalo, USA)

WORKSHOPS PROCEEDINGS CHAIR and VICE-CHAIR
Kyle Chard (University of Chicago, USA)
Moustafa AbdelBaky (Rutgers, USA)

PROGRAM AREA CHAIRS and VICE CHAIRS
ALGORITHMS:
Fredrik Manne (University of Bergen, Norway) and
Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University, USA)
EXPERIMENTS:
Karen Devine (Sandia National Lab, USA) and
Christopher D. Carothers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
PROGRAMMING MODELS:
Albert Cohen (Inria, France) and
Cosmin Oancea (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
SYSTEM SOFTWARE:
Franck Cappello (Argonne National Lab, USA) and
Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University, USA)
ARCHITECTURE:
Mahmut Kandemir (Penn State University, USA) and
Gokhan Memik (Northwestern University, USA)
MULTIDISCIPLINARY:
Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) and
Wei Tan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
Anu Bourgeois (Georgia State University, USA)

STUDENT PARTICIPATION CHAIR and VICE-CHAIR
Trilce Estrada (University of New Mexico, USA)
Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

PUBLICITY CHAIR and VICE-CHAIRS
Francesco Silvestri (University of Padova, Italy)

Lena Oden (FZ-Juelich, DE)
Ana Varbanescu (University of Amsterdam, NL)
Hongzi Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Eric Aubanel (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

FINANCE CHAIR
Bill Pitts (Retired, IEEE Volunteer & Computer Society BOG-2012, USA)

PRODUCTION CHAIR
Sally Jelinek Westrom (Electronic Design Associates, Inc., USA)

IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY TCPP CHAIR
Ümit V. Çatalyürek (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

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