PACT is a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from the hardware and software areas to present ground-breaking research related to parallel systems ranging across instruction-level parallelism, thread-level parallelism, multiprocessor parallelism and large scale systems. PACT solicits novel, unpublished papers on a broad range of topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Parallel architectures and computational models
* Multicore, multithreaded, superscalar, VLIW and GPU architectures
* Scalability and system architecture for parallel systems
* Compilers and tools for parallel computer systems
* Compiler exploitation of data- and thread-level parallelism
* Generating parallel code for domain-specific languages
* Support for concurrency correctness in hardware and software
* Compiler/hardware support for managing memory hierarchies
* Hardware and software support for power/heat-aware parallel computing
* Parallel accelerators and reconfigurable computing
* Dynamic translation and optimization for parallel systems
* I/O issues in parallel computing and their relation to applications
* Parallel programming languages, algorithms and applications
* Middleware and run-time system support for parallel computing
* Reliability and fault tolerance for parallel systems
* Modeling and simulation of parallel systems and applications
* Parallel applications and experimental systems studies
* Case studies of parallel systems and applications
* Non-traditional parallel computing systems topics