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CALL FOR PAPERS

NPC 2018

The 15th Annual IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing

http://pacman.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/npc2018/

November 29 - December 1，2018

Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan
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High Performance Computing and Big Data are two main areas where NPC 2018 will
provide a dynamic forum to explore, discuss and debate state-of-the-art techn-
ology issues and challenges. Authors are invited to submit papers on all aspects
of high-performance computing and big data. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

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*Parallel and distributed applications and algorithms

--Parallel and distributed issues and opportunities on artificial intelli-
gence application.
--Parallel algorithms for computational and data-enabled scientific,
engineering, biological and medical applications.
--Parallel algorithms for accelerators, neuromorphic architectures,
and other emerging architectures

*Parallel and distributed architectures and systems

--Emerging architectures and systems at all scales, from embedded to cloud.
--Systems for enabling parallelism at an extreme scale
--Power-efficient and green computing systems
--Neuromorphic architectures and cognitive computing accelerators
--Heterogeneous multicore architectures and accelerators
--In-Memory and near-data computing
--Network and interconnect architectures
--Storage systems in novel big data architectures

*Parallel and distributed software environments and tools

--Programming models and compilation for existing and emerging platforms
--Dataflow programming models, frameworks, languages and environments for
data-enabled platforms
--Virtualization of machines, networks, and storage
--I/O, file systems, and data management
--Resource management, scheduling, and load balancing

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Authors should submit the full version of the paper July 15, 2018, AOE. The full
version should be a PDF file following the submission guidelines that will be made
available at the submission website. Papers should be submitted for blind review.
New-idea papers as well as papers that significantly advance established areas are
strongly encouraged. Submission issues should be directed to program chairs, Marc
Snir and Jidong Zhai. We will publish top papers from NPC 2018 in a special issue
of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), and the proceedings
will be published as part of Springer LNCS.


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* Important Dates:
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* Paper Submissions Due: July 15, 2018, AOE
* Results Notification: September 10, 2018
* Camera-ready Version: September 20, 2018
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For more information, please visit the NPC 2018 conference web site at:

http://pacman.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/npc2018/.




GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Hironori Kasahara, Waseda University, Japan
Mateo Valero, BSC, Spain

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, China

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
Feng Zhang, Renmin University of China, China

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS
Mianxiong Dong, Muroran IT, Japan
He Li, Muroran IT, Japan

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Keiji Kimura, Waseda University, Japan
Shuaiwen Leon Song, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Yunquan Zhang, ICT, China
Stéphane Zuckerman, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

WEB CHAIR
Yuyang Jin, Tsinghua University, China

STEERING COMMITTEE
Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing, USA (Chair)
Hai Jin, HUST, China (Vice Chair)
Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
Guangrong Gao, University of Delaware, USA
Jean-Luc Gaudiot, UCI, USA
Tony Hey, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
Guojie Li, ICT, China
Yoichi Muraoka, Waseda University, Japan
Viktor Prasanna, USC, USA
Daniel Reed, University of Iowa, USA
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
Ninghui Sun, ICT, China
Zhiwei Xu, ICT, China

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Yungang Bao, ICT
Dehao Chen, Google
Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University
Guoyang Chen, Alibaba Group US Inc
Huimin Cui, ICT
Yufei Ding, UCSB
Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University
Masato Edahiro, Nagoya University
Keiji Kimura, Waseda University, Japan
Ang Li, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Chao Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Dong Li, University of California, Merced
Yun Liang, Peking University
Weifeng Liu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Yingwei Luo, Peking University
Xiaosong Ma, QCRI
Daniel A. Orozco, Google
Antoniu Pop, University of Manchester
Xuehai Qian, University of Southern California
Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M University
Bin Ren, College of William and Mary
Jinglei Ren, Microsoft
Larry Rudolph, Two Sigma Investments
Li Shen, National University of Defense Technology
Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
GuangZhong Sun, University of Science and Technology of China
Shanjiang Tang, Tianjin University
Dingwen Tao, The University of Alabama
Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba
Lei Wang, National University of Defense Technology
Zhaoguo Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Zheng Wang, Lancaster University
Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines
Zhibin Yu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science
Weihua Zhang, Fudan University
Zhijia Zhao, University of California Riverside
Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University
Stéphane Zuckerman, University of Cergy-Pontoise