<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" id="docs-internal-guid-7b3f448e-e384-af52-f8da-449facff86e3"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">==============================================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">*** </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">6th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS)</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> ***</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Held in conjunction with the</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HIPC 2013)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">December 18-21, 2013 | Hyderabad, INDIA | <a href="http://www.hipc.org">www.hipc.org</a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">================================================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Submission Opens </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> August 1, 2013</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Submission Deadline </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> September 16, 2013</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Accept / Reject Decisions </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> October 15, 2013</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Symposium </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:0px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> December 18, 2013</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">OVERVIEW</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The Student Research Symposium (SRS) at HiPC is organized to stimulate and foster student engagement in high performance computing research, and to provide an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments in HPC. The symposium will also expose students to the latest research and best practices in the HPC community from academia and industry.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">HiPC SRS 2012 featured 17 papers and 13 posters, which were accepted from 45 submissions from five countries. Besides brief presentations and poster exhibit by student authors, the one-day symposium this year will feature invited talks by leading HPC researchers/practitioners. The HiPC conference reception will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">TOPICS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We invite submission of extended research abstracts of 5 pages for the HiPC SRS. All topics relevant to the HiPC conference are of interest to this symposium. These include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* High-Performance Computing</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Parallel and Distributed Algorithms</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Parallel Languages and Programming Environments</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Resilient/Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Systems</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Scientific/Engineering/Commercial Applications and Workloads</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Emerging Applications such as Biotechnology and Nanotechnology</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Cloud Computing</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Peer-to-peer Algorithms and Networks</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Heterogeneous Computing</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Interconnection Networks and Architectures</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Scalable Servers and Systems</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* High Performance/Scalable Storage Systems</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Software Support and Advanced Micro-architecture Techniques</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">* Operating Systems for Scalable High-Performance Computing</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">WHAT TO SUBMIT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The extended abstracts should be submitted in PDF format. The document should be at most 5 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages in 11 pt or 12 pt fonts, single spaced, with at least one-inch margins on all sides. Please identify the names of student authors in a footnote. If some part of your submission was published by you previously, then you should cite your prior work and indicate how the current submission differs from it.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Submissions will be handled electronically through EasyChair at <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srshipc13">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srshipc13</a>.  Detailed submission instructions are available at </span><a href="http://www.hipc.org/hipc2013/studentsymposium.php" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">www.hipc.org/hipc2013/studentsymposium.php</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">. The selected extended abstracts will be published online on the conference web site and on a CD to be distributed at the conference. They will not be part of the official HiPC conference proceedings. Selection will be competitive and all submissions will be reviewed. Manuscripts will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For additional details, please contact the Symposium Co-Chairs at student_symposium AT <a href="http://hipc.org">hipc.org</a></span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">ELIGIBILITY</span></p><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The research work presented in the submission should primarily be the result of student research. Accepted papers and posters should be presented by a student author. The student author should have been a full-time student at some point in 2011. Non-student co-authors are permitted.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Awards for Best Poster and Best Presentation, sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) will be selected by a separate awards committee. We expect a total award money of Indian Rupees 50, 000.  Limited scholarships in the form of travel grants to cover part or all of travel, boarding and registration are available to authors of accepted papers. Student authors of the top few submissions at the symposium will be assured of a travel scholarship.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">A book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2013 conference.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">KISHORE KOTHAPALI, International Institute Of Information Technology, Hyderabad</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">ASHOK SRINIVASAN, Florida State University, USA</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">==============================================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">CALL FOR PAPERS</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshops : Held in conjunction with the</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">19th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing      </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">(HiPC 2013)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">December 18-21, 2011 | Hyderabad, INDIA | <a href="http://www.hipc.org">www.hipc.org</a></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">==============================================================================</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The 20 annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2013) will be held in Hyderabad, India during December 18 - December 21, 2013. It will serve as a forum to present the current work by researchers from around the world. HiPC 2013 will focus on the design and analysis of high performance computing and networking systems and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing and communication, and their applications. The HiPC workshops serves as an extended forum to present and discuss work-in-progress as well as mature research among researchers from around the world, and also highlight research activities in India.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The workshops listed below will be co-located with HiPC 2013 and are soliciting submissions. For more information, please visit individual workshop's website which are provided below, or correspond directly with the respective workshop's chairs.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Please check the individual workshop pages.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop 1 : </span><a href="http://www.hipc.org/hipc2013/workshop-details.php?id=2nd%20Workshop%20on%20Performance%20Engineering%20and%20Applications%20(WPEA)" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop on Performance Engineering and Applications (WPEA)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Important Dates</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">July 22</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Paper Submission Deadline</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">August 12</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Author Notification</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">August 25</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Camera Ready Paper Deadline</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">December 18</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Topics</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(79,129,189);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></h4>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We seek submissions on broad topics which include, but not limited to:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Performance Engineering - standard practices and emerging trends</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Systems and tools for architecture, code, and platform optimization in performance engineering.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">System software, tools, techniques, algorithms and methodologies for performance engineering.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Algorithms for performance engineering Automation of optimization techniques, machine learning for optimization.</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workload characterization and emerging applications: bio-informatics, finance, molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics, telecommunication, weather modeling, astrophysics, clinical, scripting languages, runtime environment, big data, data analytics etc.</span></p>
</li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Program Co-Chairs</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Pradeep Rao, IBM, India (pradeep dot rao at in dot ibm dot com)</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dheeraj Chahal, IBM, India (dhchahal at in dot ibm dot com)</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop 2 : </span><a href="http://www.hipc.org/hipc2013/workshop-details.php?id=Workshop%20on%20Parallel%20Algorithms%20and%20Software%20for%20Analysis%20of%20Massive%20Graphs%20(ParGraph)" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop on Parallel Algorithms and Software for Analysis of Massive Graphs (ParGraph)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Important Dates</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<div dir="ltr"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="88"><col width="182"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">July 7</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Paper Submission Deadline</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">August 7</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Author Notification</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">August 15</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Camera Ready Paper Deadline</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">December 18</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Topics</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We seek submissions on broad topics which include, but not limited to:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Theory and Algorithms</span></p>
</li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Combinatorial (graph) and machine learning algorithms and libraries</span></p>
</li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Algorithms for analysis of large complex networks (social network analysis)</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Approximation algorithms and bounds</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Design and performance evaluation of algorithms on</span></p>
</li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Traditional architectures: massively parallel distributed-memory systems (IBM BlueGene, Cray XE), shared-memory multicore systems (Intel, AMD)</span></p>
</li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Nontraditional architectures: massively multithreaded architectures (Cray XMT), many core and tiled platforms (Nvidia, AMD, Tilera, Intel)</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Applications</span></p>
</li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Combinatorial Scientific Computing; Data Mining; Graph Mining</span></p>
</li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Big Data Application – Social graph analysis, Graphical Model, pattern matching, time-evolving graphs</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Bioinformatics; Information (Cyber) security; Mobile computing</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Visual Analytics; Graph Visualization</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Programming paradigms and runtime support for irregular applications</span></p>
</li></ul><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Program Co-Chairs</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(79,129,189);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></h4>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Ümit Çatalyürek, The Ohio State University, USA (catalyurek dot 1 at osu dot edu)<br class="">
Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA (Mahantesh dot Halappanavar at pnnl dot gov)<br class="">Nilesh Jain, Intel (nilesh dot jain at intel dot com)</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop 3 : </span><a href="http://www.hipc.org/hipc2013/workshop-details.php?id=2nd%20International%20Workshop%20on%20Cloud%20Computing%20Applications%20(IWCA)" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">International Workshop on Cloud Computing Applications (IWCA)</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></a></h2>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Important Dates</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<div dir="ltr"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="95"><col width="199"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">July 15</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Paper Submission Deadline</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">August 15</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Author Notification</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">August 25</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Camera Ready Paper Deadline</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">December 18</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Topics</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(79,129,189);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></h4>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We seek submissions on broad topics which include, but not limited to:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Handling scalability, availability and failure tolerance</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workload migration to cloud</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dealing with multi-tenancy in the platform and databases</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Data locality and  placement aware computation</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Event-driven programming paradigms</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Benchmarking and profiling applications on cloud</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Caching and replication</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Writing effective map-reduce code</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Monitoring and Performance Management</span></p>
</li></ul><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Program Co-Chairs</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(79,129,189);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></h4>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Shubhashis Sengupta, Accenture, India (Shubhashis dot Sengupta at accenture dot com)<br class="">
Vikrant Kaulgud, Accenture, India (vikrant dot kaulgud at accenture dot com)<br class="">Vibhu Sharma, Accenture, India (vibhu dot sharma at accenture dot com)</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop 4 : </span><a href="http://www.hipc.org/hipc2013/workshop-details.php?id=Roadmapping%20Sandpit%20Workshop%20on%20Next-Generation%20Spatial%20Hardware%20Architectures" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Roadmapping Sandpit Workshop on Next-Generation Spatial Hardware Architectures</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></a></h2>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Important Dates</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<div dir="ltr"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="88"><col width="182"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">August 1 </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Paper Submission Deadline</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">August 12</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Author Notification</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">N/A</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Camera Ready Paper Deadline</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">December 18</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:0px 7px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Topics</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(79,129,189);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></h4>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We seek submissions on broad topics that include, but not limited to:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Energy and Programmability for next-generation computing architectures</span></p>
</li></ul><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Program Co-Chairs</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(79,129,189);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></h4>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Nachiket Kapre, NTU, Singapore (nachiket at ntu dot edu dot sg)<br class="">
Kyle Rupnow, NTU, Singapore (K dot Rupnow at adsc dot com dot sg)</span></p><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-6cc276dc-e383-25ae-06d3-6dafbab5459f"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Regards,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Manisha Gajbe</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Publicity Chair, HiPC 2013</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">National Center for Supercomputing Applications</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span></p>
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