[NotiAMCA] Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for HEC (P2S2)

[Victorio Sonzogni]

CALL FOR PAPERS
===============

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
-----
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
-----------------------
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
---------------------
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
-----------------
  * 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 en mcs.anl.gov