[IPDPS] MPP 2018: Last CFP

Sun Jan 7 13:33:41 UTC 2018

MPP 2018: 7th Workshop on Parallel Programming Models - Special Edition on
Edge/Fog/In-situ Computing

Held in Conjunction with IPDPS 2018 - http://www.ipdps.org
Vancouver, Canada, May 25, 2018
Conference website http://www.mpp-conf.org
Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mpp2018

Submission deadline January 26, 2018
Author notification February 26, 2018
Camera ready March 15, 2018
Event venue JW Marriott Parq Vancouver Hotel

Topics: edge computing fog computing in situ computing parallel programming
models

Writing parallel applications is an arduous and non-trivial task, but also
mandatory if one wants to explore the potential of modern multicore
processors. This task becomes even harder as different computation devices,
such as General Purpose Graphic Processing Units (GPGPUs), Many core
processors, and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), are employed to
build heterogeneous systems. This imposes new challenges to the scientific
community: the creation of models and alternatives to ease parallelism
exploitation by the average programmer, considering the peculiarities of
the different computation devices.

Another important aspect to consider, specially in applications that run on
big systems and manipulate big datasets, is the tradeoff between moving
data to a remote processing element to increase parallelism and computing
things locally to reduce communication and energy costs, while keeping
performance levels. Edge, Fog and In-situ computing intend to tackle this
issue by adding computing capabilities to network devices (such as NICs,
switches and routers), storage devices or even memory. Those "smart"
devices would be able to perform part of the computation that would reduce
data transmission over the network and data busses. Moreover, current trend
related to the Internet-of-Things predict that an increasing number of
devices composed by sensors, actuators and processing elements will be
spread around the world, while forming a huge network to collect relevant
information to a broad range of applications. All the aforementioned
aspects make computing systems even more heterogeneous, intensifying the
need for novel programming models.

MPP aims at bringing together researchers interested in presenting
contributions to the evolution of existing models or in proposing novel
ones, considering the trends on processing/accelerator devices in the
context of edge/fog/in-situ computing. MPP 2018 will be held in conjunction
with The 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing
Symposium (IPDPS 2018), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on May 25,
2018.
Submission Guidelines

MPP invites authors to submit unpublished full papers on the subject.
Submissions must be in English, 10 pages maximum, following the IEEE
formatting guidelines. The 10-page limit includes references. Submission
must be done electronically and following deadlines informed.
List of Topics

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Novel execution models and languages for parallelism exploitation;
Languages, compilers and tools;
Heterogeneous programming models;
Synchronization Mechanisms, such as Transactional Memories;
Smart memories;
Load-balancing, Scheduling and Placement for Edge/Fog/In-situ Computing;
Novel Parallel Programming Techniques for Edge/Fog/In-situ Computing;
Novel Parallel Architectures for Edge/Fog/In-situ Computing;
Resilience and Fault Tolerance for Edge/Fog/In-situ Computing;
Theoretical Analysis of Parallelism;
Smart storage;
Smart Switches and Smart NICs;
Software defined Networks for Edge/Fog/In-situ Computing;
Applications for Edge/Fog/In-situ computing;
Data Stream Processing.

Committees

General co-chairs
Leandro A. J. Marzulo - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ),
Brazil
Felipe M. G. França - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ),  Brazil

Program Co-chairs
Cristiana Bentes - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
Gabriele Mencagli - University of Pisa, Italy

Steering Co-chairs
Andrew Putnam - Microsoft Research, USA
Mauricio Pilla - Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil

Steering Committee
Daniel Mosse  -  University of Pittsburgh,  USA
Edson Borin - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
Eugene Vinod - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil
Guido Araújo - UNICAMP, Brazil
Inês Dutra - Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Lúcia Drummond - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil
Nader Bagherzadeh - University of California Irvine, USA
Nelson Amaral - University of Alberta, USA
Rodolfo Azevedo - UNICAMP, Brazil
Sandip Kundu - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Vladimir Alves - NGD Systems, USA

Program Committee
Aletéia Araújo - Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Alexandre da Costa Sena - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ),
Brazil
Alexandre Solon Nery - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ),
Brazil
Bruce Childers - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Carla Osthoff - Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC), Brazil
Claudia Di Napoli - CNR, Italy
Claude Tadonki - Mines - ParisTech,  France
Cristina Boeres - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil
Dalvan Griebler - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
Diego Dutra - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
Eduard Ayguadé - Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Edward Moreno - Universidade Federal do Sergipe, Brazil
Elias Mizan - Synaptics, USA
Gabriel Paillard - Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Brazil
Igor Machado Coelho - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ),
Brazil
Katia Obraczka - University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Kary Främling - Aalto University, Finland
Krommydas Konstantinos - Intel, USA
Luciana Arantes  -  Université Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie,  France
Luiz de Rose - Cray, USA
Maria Clicia Stelling de Castro - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
(UERJ), Brazil
Mario Dantas - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
Mauricio Breternitz - Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal
Matthew Sinclair - AMD Research, USA
Michael Frank - LG Electronics, USA
Per Stenstrom - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Rafael dos Santos - ARM, United Kingdom
Rekai Gonzalez Alberquilla - ARM, UK
Roberto Souto - Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC),
Brazil
Tiago A. O. Alves – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil
Walfredo Cirne - Google, USA
Walid Najjar - University of California Riverside, USA
Zehra Sura - IBM, USA

Publication
The proceedings of MPP will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Computer
Society Digital Library. A journal special issue dedicated to the best
papers of MPP 2018 is being arranged. More details will be anounced soon.

Venue
MPP 2018 will be co-held with IPDPS, at the JW Marriott Parq Vancouver
Hotel, in Vancouver, Canada.

Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Leandro Marzulo (
leandro.marzulo at gmail.com or leandro at ime.uerj.br)
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