Fourth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2) Sept. 13th, 2011

To be held in conjunction with ICPP-2011: The 40th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Sept. 13-16, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan

Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2

SCOPE
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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
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The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures
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 for high-end computing

* Programming models and their high-performance implementations
o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel, Fortress and others
o Hybrid Programming Models

* 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


PROCEEDINGS
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Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference proceedings) .


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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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.
Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/
for the submission link.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: March 17th, 2011
Author Notification: May 3rd, 2011
Camera Ready: June 30th, 2011
Workshop Date: Sept. 13th, 2011


PROGRAM CHAIRS
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* Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
* Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
* Yong Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

PUBLICITY CHAIR
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* Hui Jin, Illinois Institute of Technology


STEERING COMMITTEE
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* William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
* Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University
* Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University
* George Almasi, IBM Research
* Taisuke Boku, Tsukuba University
* Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory
* Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
* Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China
* Rahul Garg, IBM Research India, India
* Torsten Hoefler, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
* Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
* Darren J. Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Lab
* Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego
* Heshan Lin, Virginia Tech
* Sonia Sachs, Department of Energy
* Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
* Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences
* Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory
* Vinod Tipparaju, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* Jesper Traff, University of Vienna, Austria
* Bharadwaj Veeravalli, National Univ. of Singapore
* Weikuan Yu, Auburn University
* Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs@mcs.anl.gov