CALL FOR PAPERS =============== 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 ----- 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 ------------------ 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 ----------------------- 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 ------------------- Paper Submission: April 11th, 2008 Author Notification: May 20th, 2008 Camera Ready: June 2nd, 2008 PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- * Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory) * Sayantan Sur (IBM Research) STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ * William D. Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) * Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State University) * Vijay Saraswat (IBM Research) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- * 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 en mcs.anl.gov