GOVERNMENT

October 8th Submission Deadline for Regular Conference Papers: 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium: April 14-18, 2008, Hyatt Regency Resort, Miami, Florida, USA. For details and updates, visit the IPDPS Website at www.ipdps.org or email inquiries to info@ipdps.org. IMPORTANT DATES October 8, 2007.......Final Deadline for Manuscripts November 15, 2007.....Tutorial Proposals Due December 11, 2007.....Review Decisions Mailed January 28, 2008......Camera-ready Papers Due ---------------------------- IPDPS CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Join us at IPDPS 2008 next April in Miami, 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. A new event this year, the PhD Forum, will be an opportunity for PhD students to present their thesis work to a broad audience from both industry and academia. 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 Superieure de Lyon, France ---------------------------- IPDPS 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Work focusing on emerging technologies is especially welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ---Parallel and distributed algorithms, focusing on issues such as: stability, scalability, and fault tolerance of distributed systems, communication and synchronization protocols, network algorithms, and scheduling and load balancing. ---Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including web applications, peer-to-peer computing, grid computing, scientific applications, and mobile computing. ---Parallel and distributed architectures, including shared memory, distributed memory (including petascale system designs, and architectures with instruction-level and thread-level parallelism), special-purpose models (including signal and image processors, network processors, other special purpose processors), nontraditional processor technologies, network and interconnect architecture, parallel I/O and storage systems, system design issues for low power, design for high reliability, and performance modeling and evaluation. ---Parallel and distributed software, including parallel programming languages and compilers, runtime systems, operating systems, resource management, middleware, libraries, data mining, and programming environments and tools. Best Papers Awards Awards will be given for one best paper in each of the four conference technical tracks: algorithms, applications, architectures, and software. The selected papers also will be considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. What/Where to Submit Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 15 single-spaced pages using 12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Please use the standard 1-inch margin. *Authors may submit additional material as an appendix to their submission, but there is no guarantee that this material will influence the review process. Files should be submitted in PDF format. Authors must ensure that electronically submitted files are formatted for 8.5x11 inch paper. Authors who have web access will upload papers on the EDAS system, linked from www.ipdps.org. Note that authors will be asked to select one of the four main tracks and one to three topics for each submission. Because the EDAS system will not accept manuscripts that exceed 15 pages, authors who wish to include appended material should send an Appendix as a pdf document with a file name that has the paper number (ipdps08-xxx-appendix) to the Program Chair at ipdps08@ipdps.org and make the subject of the email the same as the attached file name. *Authors who submit appended material must include in their paper at the end of the Introduction a statement (in bold) that an Appendix has been submitted to the Program Chair. Again, the reading of this extra material is at the discretion of the reviewers. Authors, who have e-mail access, but not web access, should contact the Program Chair at: ipdps08@ipdps.org. Authors who have no electronic access (e-mail or web) should contact the Program Chair at: Laboratoire LIP -- Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon -- 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France Review of Manuscripts All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in, nor be under consideration for, another conference or workshop, nor for a journal. Manuscripts must be received by October 8, 2007, by 11:59pm, U.S. Eastern Daylight Time. This is a final, hard deadline; to ensure fairness, no extensions will be given. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by December 11, 2007 (typically electronically). Camera-ready papers will be due January 28, 2008. PROGRAM CHAIR Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS: ALGORITHMS Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA APPLICATIONS Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA ARCHITECTURES David Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA SOFTWARE Paul HJ Kelly, Imperial College London, UK See Web for full list of IPDPS 2008 Program Committee member. ---------------------------- IPDPS 2008 EVENTS - Details for participation ===== IPDPS 2008 Workshops===== IPDPS workshops - held on the first and last days - provide attendees an opportunity to explore special topics and are a major part of the IPDPS week-long family of events. Each workshop has its own requirements and schedule for submissions. All workshop submission dates are at least one week later than the regular symposium deadline of October 8, 2007. To obtain more information on one of the twenty-five IPDPS 2008 workshops listed below - including their call for papers - visit the the IPDPS Website and click on the individual workshop for more information. Workshop papers are published as part of the full symposium proceedings on cd-rom and will be available onsite in Miami. --Continuing Workshops-- HCW--Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop WPDRTS--Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems RAW--Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop HIPS--Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models & Supportive Environments JAVAPDC--Workshop on Java and Components for Parallelism, Distribution and Concurrency NIDISC--Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing HiCOMB--Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology APDCM--Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Models CAC--Communication Architecture for Clusters NSFNGS--NSF Next Generation Software Program HPPAC--High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing HPGC--High Performance Grid Computing SMTPS--Workshop on System Managem ent Techniques, Processes, and Services PDSEC--Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing PMEO--Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimisation of Ubiquitous Computing and Networked Systems DPDNS--Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems SSN--International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks POHLL--Performance Optimization for High-Level Languages and Libraries HOTP2P--Third International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems PCGRID--Workshop on Large-Scale, Volatile Desktop Grids MTAAP--Workshop on Multi-Threaded Architectures and Applications --New Workshops in 2008-- TOPMoDRS--Workshop on Tools, Operating Systems and Programming Models for Developing Reliable Systems PDCoF--Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance LSPP--Workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing JSSPP--Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing =====Symposium Tutorial===== IPDPS 2008 will offer an evening symposium tutorial, open to all attendees, with the objective of surveying the latest developments in a key emerging area of our field. Proposals are solicited for organizing this tutorial and should be submitted by November 15, 2007 to the Tutorials Chair Sushil K. Prasad (sprasad@gsu.edu). =====Commercial Participation===== IPDPS is an excellent opportunity for companies to showcase their technologies to a sophisticated international audience. Commercial Participation can include three days of "walk-up-and-talk" exhibits, a presentation in a conference Commercial Track session (with a technical article in the proceedings), and an evening industrial tutorial that provides orientation and training to conference participants interested in using their technology. Companies interested in participating should contact one of the Commercial Track Co-chairs as early as possible, but no later than the first week of January 2008. =====Birds-of-a-Feather===== These are informal early evening sessions in which a group of researchers can gather for discussions on a topic of mutual interest. We'll provide the space, you provide the topic and gather the people. To reserve space in advance, contact the General Vice Chair Alessandro Mei (mei@di.uniroma1.it ). =====PhD Forum (new event)===== This launches a new event as part of the regular IPDPS program. The PhD Forum will be an opportunity for PhD students to present a poster describing their thesis work to a broad audience from both industry and academia in the parallel and distributed computing community. The objective of the PhD Forum is to help students establish contacts for entering the job market and at the same time give representatives from industry and academia a preview of state-of-the-art developments in parallel and distributed computing. The full call for participation in this event will be posted 6 months prior to IPDPS 2008, giving requirements for submissions and the planned review process. Visit the IPDPS Web for updates. The top submissions will receive travel awards made possible by the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. ---------------------------- IPDPS 2008 ORGANIZING CHAIRS WORKSHOPS CHAIR Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA TUTORIALS CHAIR Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA COMMERCIAL PRESENTATIONS & EXHIBITS CO-CHAIRS David Klepacki, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA PhD FORUM CHAIR Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Yuanyuan Yang, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS AMERICAS: Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada ASIA/PACIFIC RIM: Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China EUROPE/ASIA: Roberto Di Pietro, University of Roma Tre, Italy FINANCE CHAIR Bill Pitts, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Susamma Barua, California State University, Fullerton, USA PRODUCTION CHAIR Sally Jelinek, Electronic Design Associates, Inc., USA STEERING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California George Westrom, Future Scientists & Engineers of America