INDUSTRY

The 19th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, hosted by Colorado State University, will be April 4-8, 2005, in Denver. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Parallel and distributed algorithms, including stability 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, operating systems, resource management, middleware, libraries, data mining, and programming environments and tools. 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. Manuscripts must be received by 5 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Oct. 8. For full submission details and more conference information, go to http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2005/.