CALL FOR PAPERS SBAC-PAD 2018
International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
Lyon, France
September 24-27, 2018
http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/sbac-pad

SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications,
and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, speci alists and
graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, in France. Known
as the Gastronomy Capital, Lyon is the 2nd largest economic and industrial region in France, and has become one of the favorite
destinations for tourism in Europe. Lyon is also considered the most liveable city in France according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture,
systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, performance analysis, and applications. Topics of interest include (but are not
limited to):

- Application-specific systems
- Architecture and programming support for emerging domains (Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems)
- Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis
- Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems
- Embedded and pervasive systems
- GPUs, FPGAs and accelerator architectures
- Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming
- Modeling and simulation methodology
- Operating systems and virtualization
- Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications
- Power and energy-efficient systems
- Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture
- Real-world applications and case studies
- Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the SBAC-PAD 2018
Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore (pending), one of the authors must register at the full
rate. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers for publication on a selected journal.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Abstract deadline: May 11, 2018
- Paper deadline: May 18, 2018
- Rebuttal period: June 27-28, 2018
- Author notification: July 6, 2018
- Camera-ready: July 20, 2018

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs
- Laurent Lefèvre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France)
- Alfredo Goldman (Sao Paulo University, Brazil)
- Marcos Dias de Assuncao (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France)

Program Co-chairs
- Rosa M Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
- Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, USA)
- Lucas Mello Schnorr (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Track Chairs
- Computer Architecture: Kalyana Chadalavada (Intel, USA)
- Networking and Distributed Systems: Wagner Meira, Jr, (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
- Parallel Applications and Algorithms: Enrique Quintana-Ortí, (Universidad Jaime I, Spain)
- Performance Evaluation: Arnaud Legrand (CNRS/Inria/Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
- System Software: Adrien Lebre (IMT Atlantique/Inria/LS2N, Nantes, France)