IPDPS 2008: 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium: April 14-18, 2008, Miami, Florida – USA www.ipdps.org. Reminder: 24 March 2008 - Conference and Hotel Registration Deadline. Conference Registration: Advance registration fees must be received before 11:59 PM, Mountain Standard Time (GMT 07:00) 24 March 2008. Onsite fees will apply after that time and date. -------------- FINAL PROGRAM: -------------- MONDAY, April 14, 2008 •Workshops 1-13 TUESDAY, April 15, 2008 (Commercial Exhibits – All Day) •Keynote Speech: Translational Research Design Templates, Grid Computing, and HPC Speaker: Joel Saltz Department of Biomedical Informatics The Ohio State University •Contributed Papers: Technical Sessions 1-11 •All Symposium Tutorial: Open64 Compiler infrastructure for emerging multicore/manycore architecture Presenters: Guang R. Gao, University of Delaware Barbara Chapman, University of Houston Tony Linthicum, Qualcomm Inc. Juergen Ributzka, University of Delaware WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2008 (Commercial Exhibits – All Day) •Keynote Speech: Programming Models for Petascale to Exascale Speaker: Katherine Yelick NERSC Division Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and EECS Department University of California at Berkeley •Plenary Session - Best Papers •Contributed Papers: Technical Sessions 12-15 •Panel Discussion: How to avoid making the same mistakes all over again or... how to make the experiences of the parallel processing communities useful for the multi/many-core generation Moderator: Jesper Larsson Traeff, IT Research Division, NEC Laboratories Europe Panelists: • Jesper Larsson Traeff, NEC Laboratories Europe (organizer) • Hideharu Amano, Keio University • Anwar Ghuloum, Intel • John Gustavson, Clearspeed • Keshav Pingali, University of Austin, Texas • Vivek Sarkar, Rice University, Texas • Uzi Vishkin, U of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies • Kathy Yelick, University of Berkeley, California •Banquet and Invited Speech Speech: Computational Thinking and Thinking About Computing Speaker: Jeannette Wing Carnegie Mellon University and National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering THURSDAY, April 17, 2008 (Commercial Exhibits – All Day) •Keynote Speech: Looking at Data Speaker: Dro Feitelson School of Computer Science & Engineering The Hebrew University of Jerusalem •PhD Forum Posters – Morning and Afternoon Sessions •Contributed Papers: Technical Sessions 16-24 •Commercial Tutorial: Automated Management of Hierarchical Memories on Multicore Processors Presenter: William Lundgren, Gedae, Inc. FRIDAY, April 18, 2008 •Workshops 14-22 --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- IPDPS CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Join us in April 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Resort in Miami, Florida, known as the "Magic City" and recognized worldwide as an international cultural and business hub. IPDPS serves as a forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in the fields of parallel processing and distributed computing. The five-day program will follow the usual format of contributed papers, invited speakers, panels, tutorials, and commercial participation mid week, framed by workshops held on the first and last days. For details and updates, visit the IPDPS Website at www.ipdps.org or email inquiries to info@ipdps.org. GENERAL CHAIR Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University and National Science Foundation, USA GENERAL VICE CHAIR Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy PROGRAM CHAIR Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France www.ipdps.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing