[ieeetcsc-discuss] CFP: IEEE LSPP Workshop

[Alex K. Jones]

						CALL FOR PAPERS

                  Workshop on LARGE-SCALE PARALLEL PROCESSING
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to be held in conjunction with IEEE International Parallel and  
Distributed
Processing Symposium Miami, Florida, April 14th - 18th, 2008

The workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing is a forum that  
focuses on
computer systems that utilize thousands of processors and beyond.  
This is a
very active area given the goals by many world-wide to enhance  
science by
simulation by installing large-scale peta-flop systems at the start  
of the next
decade. Large-scale systems, referred to by some as extreme-scale and  
ultra-
scale, have many important research aspects that need detailed  
examination in
order for their effective design, deployment, and utilization to take  
place.
These include handling the substantial increase in multi-core on a  
chip, the
ensuing interconnection hierarchy, communication, and synchronization
mechanisms. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from  
different
communities working on challenging problems in this area for a  
dynamic exchange
of ideas. Work at early stages of development as well as work that  
has been
demonstrated in practice is equally welcome.

Of particular interest are papers that identify and analyze novel  
ideas rather
than providing incremental advances in the following areas:

LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS: exploiting parallelism at large-scale, the  
coordination of
      large numbers of processing elements, synchronization and  
communication at
      large-scale, programming models and productivity

MULTI-CORE: utilization of increased parallelism on a single chip  
(MPP on a chip
      such as the Cell and GPUs), the possible integration of these  
into large-
      scale systems, and dealing with the resulting hierarchical  
connectivity.

NOVEL ARCHITECTURES AND EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEMS: the design of novel  
systems, the
      use of processors in memory (PIMS), parallelism in emerging  
technologies,
      future trends.

APPLICATIONS: novel algorithmic and application methods, experiences  
in the
       design and use of applications that scale to large-scales,  
overcoming of
       limitations, performance analysis and insights gained.

Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be  
considered, as
well as work that has demonstrated impact at small-scale that will  
also affect
large-scale systems. Work may involve algorithms, languages, various  
types of
models, or hardware

SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE WORKSHOP WILL BE INVITED TO SUBMIT AN
EXTENDED VERSION FOR PUBLICATION IN PARALLEL PROCESSING LETTERS.

Submission Guidelines
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Papers should not exceed eight single-space pages (including figures,  
tables
and references) using a 12-point font on 8.5x11-inch pages.  
Submissions in
PostScript or PDF should be made using EDAS. Informal enquiries can  
be made
to djk at lanl.gov. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality,
technical strength, significance, presentation quality and  
appropriateness.
Submitted papers should not have appeared in or under consideration for
another venue.

Important Dates
       Papers due:                   December  7th 2007
       Notification of acceptance:   January  11th 2008
       Camera-Ready Papers due:      January  21th 2008
Workshop Co-chairs
       Darren J. Kerbyson      Los Alamos National Laboratory
       Ram Rajamony            IBM Austin Research Lab
       Charles Weems           University of Massachusetts

Steering Committee
       Johnnie Baker           Kent State University
       H.J. Siegel             Colorado State University

Publicity Chair:
       Alex Jones              University of Pittsburgh

Program Committee
       Ghoerge Almasi          IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab
       Taisuke Boku            University of Tsukuba, Japan
       Barbara Chapman         University of Houston
       Hank Dietz              University of Kentucky
       Daniel Katz             Louisiana State University
       John Levesque           Cray Inc.
       John Michalakes         NCAR, Boulder
       Celso Mendes            University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
       Bernd Mohr              Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
       Stathis Papaefstathiou  Microsoft
       Michael Scherger        Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
       Harvey Wasserman        NERSC/LBNL
       Gerhard Willheim        University of Erlangan, Germany
       Robert Walker           Kent State University
       Pat Worley              Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Workshop General Chair and point of contact: Darren J. Kerbyson  
(djk at lanl.gov)

--
Alex K. Jones, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~akj8