[Beowulf] Call For Papers: Intl. Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for HEC (P2S2)

[p2s2-chairs at mcs.anl.gov]

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Second International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models 
and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2)
Sept. 22nd, 2009

To be held in conjunction with ICPP-09: The 38th International 
Conference on Parallel Processing, Sept. 22-25, 2009, Vienna, Austria

Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2

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:

    *  Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures
          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 for high-end computing

    * Programming models and their high-performance implementations
          o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel, Fortress and others
          o Hybrid Programming Models

    * 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


PROCEEDINGS
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Proceedings of this workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society (together with the ICPP conference proceedings) in CD format
only and will be available at the conference.


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.
Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/
for the submission link.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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The best papers selected for the workshop will be published in a
special issue of the International Journal of High Performance
Computing Applications (IJHPCA) on Parallel Programming Models and
Systems Software for High-End Computing.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: Feb. 27th, 2009
Author Notification: May 1st, 2009
Camera Ready: June 5th, 2009


PROGRAM CHAIRS
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  * Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory)
  * Abhinav Vishnu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)


PUBLICITY CHAIR
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  * Yong Chen, Illinois Institute of Technology


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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  * Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  * Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory
  * Narayan Desai, Argonne National Laboratory
  * Richard Graham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  * Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
  * Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University, Korea
  * Matthew Koop, Ohio State University
  * Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  * Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology
  * Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego
  * Jiuxing Liu, IBM Research
  * Guillaume Mercier, INRIA, France
  * Jarek Nieplocha, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  * Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  * Fabrizio Petrini, IBM Research
  * Arun Raghunath, Intel
  * Vivek Sarkar, Rice University
  * Bronis de Supinksi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  * Sayantan Sur, IBM Research
  * Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory
  * Jesper Traff, NEC, Europe
  * Weikuan Yu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory


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

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