[Beowulf] [p2s2-announce] CFP: Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2)

[p2s2-chairs at mcs.anl.gov]

CALL FOR PAPERS
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First International Workshop on
Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software
for High-end Computing (P2S2)

(http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2)

Sep. 8th, 2008

To be held in conjunction with
ICPP-08: The 27th International Conference on Parallel Processing
Sep. 8-12, 2008
Portland, Oregon, USA


SCOPE
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for
high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new
ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the
workshop.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

    * Programming models and their high-performance implementations
          o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel
          o Other Hybrid Programming Models
    * Systems software for scientific and enterprise computing
          o Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing
          o High-performance File and storage systems
          o Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations
          o Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management mechanisms
    * Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization
          o Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures
          o Job scheduling libraries
          o Management libraries for large-scale system
          o Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms
    * Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They
should not exceed 8 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged
based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and
clarity.


DATES AND DEADLINES
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Paper Submission: April 11th, 2008
Author Notification: May 20th, 2008
Camera Ready: June 2nd, 2008


PROGRAM CHAIRS
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 * Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory)
 * Sayantan Sur (IBM Research)


STEERING COMMITTEE
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 * William D. Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
 * Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State University)
 * Vijay Saraswat (IBM Research)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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 * David Bernholdt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
 * Ron Brightwell (Sandia National Laboratory)
 * Wu-chun Feng (Virginia Tech)
 * Richard Graham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
 * Hyun-wook Jin (Konkuk University, South Korea)
 * Sameer Kumar (IBM Research)
 * Doug Lea (State University of New York at Oswego)
 * Jarek Nieplocha (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
 * Scott Pakin (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
 * Vivek Sarkar (Rice University)
 * Rajeev Thakur (Argonne National Laboratory)
 * Pete Wyckoff (Ohio Supercomputing Center)

If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs at mcs.anl.gov

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