32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
May 21 – May 25, 2018
JW Marriott Parq Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA



IPDPS 2018 UPDATES & ALERTS

Full Conference Call for Papers Posted – Now open for submissions
Technical Program Committee Members Announced
The five-day IPDPS program includes three days of contributed papers, invited speakers, industry participation, and student programs, framed by two days of workshops that complement and broaden the main program. For details and updates on all events, return to this page.


IPDPS 2018 IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts due
October 17, 2017
Submissions due (hard deadline)
October 22, 2017
Author notification (first round)
December 8, 2017
Revisions due
January 8, 2018
Author notification (final)
January 22, 2018
Camera-ready due
February 15, 2018


IPDPS 2018 VENUE

Rising against a backdrop of majestic coastal mountains on Canada’s Pacific Northwest coast, the JW Marriott Parq Vancouver Hotel is located in the heart of downtown Vancouver’s urban entertainment and resort complex. IPDPS 2018 attendees will enjoy state of the art meeting facilities, with Vancouver as a jumping off point for some of the world’s grand sightseeing adventures.


IPDPS 2018 Call For Papers

IPDPS 2018 Call For Papers
32nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
May 21 – May 25, 2018
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

PLEASE NOTE:

Authors must register their paper and submit an abstract by October 17, 2017
Authors must then submit full versions of registered papers by October 22, 2017.
All deadlines are end of day ANYWHERE ON EARTH.
Before submitting, review the information under WHAT/WHERE TO SUBMIT.

SCOPE:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Work focusing on emerging technologies and interdisciplinary work covering multiple IPDPS areas are especially welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following re-defined topic areas:

Parallel and distributed computing theory and algorithms (Algorithms): Design and analysis of novel numerical and combinatorial parallel algorithms; protocols for resource management; communication and synchronization on parallel and distributed systems; parallel algorithms handling power, mobility, and resilience.
Experiments and practice in parallel and distributed computing (Experiments): Design and experimental evaluation of applications of parallel and distributed computing in simulation and analysis; experiments in the use of novel commercial or research architectures, accelerators, neuromorphic architectures, and other non-traditional systems; algorithms for cloud computing; domain-specific parallel and distributed algorithms; performance modeling and analysis of parallel and distributed algorithms.

Programming models, compilers and runtimes for parallel applications and systems (Programming Models): Parallel programming paradigms, models and languages; compilers, runtime systems, programming environments and tools for the support of parallel programming; parallel software development and productivity.
System software and middleware for parallel and distributed systems (System Software): System software support for scientific workflows; storage and I/O systems; System software for resource management, job scheduling, and energy-efficiency; frameworks targeting cloud and distributed systems; system software support for accelerators and heterogeneous HPC computing systems; interactions between the OS, runtime, compiler, middleware, and tools; system software support for fault tolerance and resilience; containers and virtual machines; system software supporting scalable data analytics, machine learning, and deep learning; OS and runtime system specialized for high performance computing and exascale systems; system software for future novel computing platforms including quantum, neuromorphic, and bio-inspired computing.

Architecture: Architectures for instruction-level and thread-level parallelism; memory technologies and hierarchies; exascale system designs; data center architectures; novel big data architectures; special-purpose architectures and accelerators; network and interconnect architectures; parallel I/O and storage systems; power-efficient and green computing systems; resilience and dependable architectures; performance modeling and evaluation.

Multidisciplinary: Papers that cross the boundaries of the previous tracks are encouraged and can be submitted to the multidisciplinary track. During submission of multidisciplinary papers, authors should indicate their subject areas that can come from any area. Contributions should either target two or more core areas of parallel and distributed computing where the whole is larger than sum of its components, or advance the use of parallel and distributed computing in other areas of science and engineering.

BEST PAPER AWARDS
The program committee will nominate a few papers for recognition. Upon presentation at a special session, the best papers will be selected by a committee.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
A few papers from each area will be selected by the conference chair and co-chairs and invited for submission to a special issue of JPDC dedicated to IPDPS. The final paper should have at least 30% extra material and will be reviewed as any JPDC submission, but fast-tracked to appear a few months after the conference.

WHAT/WHERE TO SUBMIT
Abstracts must be submitted by October 17th; submitted abstracts may not exceed 500 words. Manuscripts must be submitted by October 22nd; submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations.

The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions here.

Files should be submitted by following the instructions at the EasyChair portal. Click here to submit your abstract and register your paper by October 17th.

REVIEW OF MANUSCRIPTS:
All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, potential impact, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted papers should NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference, workshop or journal.

Questions may be sent to pc2018@ipdps.org. Abstracts are due October 17, 2017, and full manuscripts must be received by October 22, 2017. This is a final, hard deadline. To ensure fairness, no extensions will be given.

Preliminary decisions will be sent by December 8, 2017, with a decision of either accept, revise, or reject. Authors of “revised” papers will have the opportunity to revise the content according to reviewers’ comments and will submit their final paper (together with a cover letter explaining the changes) by January 8, 2018. Notification of final decisions will be mailed by January 22, 2018, and camera-ready papers will be due February 15, 2018.

PROGRAM CHAIR and VICE-CHAIR

Anne Benoit (ENS Lyon, France) and
Ümit V. Çatalyürek (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
PROGRAM AREA CHAIRS and VICE CHAIRS

ALGORITHMS:
Fredrik Manne (University of Bergen, Norway) and
Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University, USA)
EXPERIMENTS:
Karen Devine (Sandia National Lab, USA) and
Christopher D. Carothers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
PROGRAMMING MODELS:
Albert Cohen (Inria, France) and
Cosmin Oancea (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
SYSTEM SOFTWARE:
Franck Cappello (Argonne National Lab, USA) and
Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University, USA)
ARCHITECTURE:
Mahmut Kandemir (Penn State University, USA) and
Gokhan Memik (Northwestern University, USA)
MULTIDISCIPLINARY:
Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) and
Wei Tan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(18 SEPTEMBER 2017*)

ALGORITHMS
Primary
Olivier Beaumont, INRIA, France
Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, USA
Ananth Grama, Purdue University, USA
Pierre Fraigniaud, Research Institute for Foundations of Computer Science, France
George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA
Henning Meyerhenke, University of Cologne, Germany
Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Alex Pothen, Purdue University, USA
Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA
Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Frederic Vivien, INRIA, France

Regular
Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University, USA
Azad Ariful, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Cevdet Aykanat, Bilkent University, Turkey
Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University, USA
Petra Berenbrink, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA
Rob Bisseling, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Louis-Claude Canon, INRIA, France
Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, UC Irvine, USA
Guojing Cong, IBM Research, USA
Olivier Coulaud, INRIA, France
Pierluigi Crescenzi, University of Florence, Italy
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Fanny Dufossé, INRIA, France
Robert Elsasser, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
Leszek Gasieniec, University of Liverpool, UK
Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Magnus Halldorsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Howie Huang, George Washington University, USA
Klaus Jansen, Kiel University, Germany
Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA, France
Kamer Kaya, Sabanci University, Turkey
Kishore Kothapalli, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
Johannes Langguth, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Hang Liu, The George Washington University, USA
Hao Lu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Loris Marchal, INRIA, France
Samuel McCauley, Stony Brook University, USA
Alba-Cristina de Melo, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, USA
Gopal Pandurangan, University of Houston, USA
Merav Parter, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Francesco Pasquale, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Paolo Penna, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland
A. Erdem Sariyuce, University at Buffalo, USA
Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University, Germany
Christian Schindelhauer, University of Freiburg, Germany
Christian Schulz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Sudip Seal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jesper-Larsson Traff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Sebastien Tixeuil, LIP6, France
Sathish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Albert-Jan Yzelman, Huawei, Netherlands

EXPERIMENTS
Primary
Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Grey Ballard, Wake Forest University, USA
Kevin Barker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Petros Drineas, Purdue University, USA
Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Judith Hill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Onkar Sahni, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Catherine Schuman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
George Slota, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Peter Staar, IBM Zurich, Switzerland
Jeffrey Young, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Regular
David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia
Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA
Prasanna Balaprakash, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Scott Beamer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
David Beckingsale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Jim Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Martin Berzins, University of Utah, USA
Tekin Bicer, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
George Biros, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Alex Breuer, University of California, San Diego, USA
Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA
Jee Whan Choi, IBM, USA
Jeff Daily, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Irina Demeshko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Dmitry Duplyakin, University of Colorado, USA
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago, USA
Pieter Ghysels, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Jing Gong, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Michael Gowanlock, Northern Arizona University, USA
Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Daniel Ibanez, Sandia National Labs, USA
Toshiyuki Imamura, RIKEN, Japan
Sam Jacobs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Mathias Jacquelin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Jiajia Li, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Paul Lin, Sandia National Labs, USA
Scott Lloyd, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Edward Luke, Mississippi State University, USA
Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California -- Davis, USA
Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago, USA
Kolin Paul, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Jean-Noel Quintin, Atos, France
Bruno Raffin, INRIA, France
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago, USA
Gokarna Sharma, Kent State University, USA
Fengguan Song, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Heidi Thornquist, Sandia National Labs, USA
Christian Trott, Sandia National Labs, USA
Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universität München, Germany
Jae-Seung Yeom, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Dantong Yu, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Jaroslaw Zola, University at Buffalo, USA

PROGRAM MODELS
Primary
Kei Davis, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Tobias Grosser, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Keiji Kimura, Waseda University, Japan
Milind Kulkarni, Purdue University, USA
Eunjung Park, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Olga Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Keshav Pingali, University of Texas Austin, USA
Louis-Noel Pouchet, Colorado State University, USA
Saday Sadayappan, Ohio State University, USA
Zehra Sura, IBM, USA
Phil Trinder, Glasgow University, UK
Minjia Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA

Regular
François Broquedis, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Guoyang Chen, Qualcomm Inc., USA
Christophe Dubach, University of Edinburgh, UK
Boris Duedder, University of Copenhagen, DK
Franz Franchetti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thomas R. Gross, ETH, Switzerland
Kevin Hammond, University of St. Andrews, UK
Doug Lea, State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego, USA
Patrick Maier, University of Glasgow, UK
Geoffrey Mainland, Drexel University, USA
Xavier Martorell, UPC/BSC, Spain
Saurav Muralidharan, NVIDIA, USA
Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Daniel C. van der Ster, CERN, Switzerland
Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

SYSTEM SOFTWARE
Primary
Sadaf Alam, CSCS, Switzerland
Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, France
Amy Apon, Clemson University, USA
Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
Volodymyr Kindratenko, University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, USA
Arthur Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Satoshi Matsukoa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux, France
Bogdan Nicolae, Huawei, USA
DK Panda, Ohio State University, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA
Osman Unsal, Barcelona Tech (Polytechnic University of Catalonia), Spain

Regular
Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA
Leonardo Bautista-Gomez, Barcelona Tech (Polytechnic University of Catalonia), Spain
Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Jim Brandt, Sandia National Labs, USA
Ali Butt, Virginia Tech, USA
Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA
Sheng Di, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Matthieu Dreher, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Song Fu, University of North Texas, USA
Ana Gainaru, Vanderbilt University, USA
Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA
Madhu Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton, USA
Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Lizy John, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Changhee Jung, Virginia Tech, USA
Larry Kaplan, Cray Inc., USA
Kerstin Kleese-Van-Dam, Brookhaven National Lab, USA
Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), USA
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Jack Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Seyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Naoya Maruyama, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Jean-Francois Mehaut, INRIA, France
Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA
Kengo Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshi Nakashima, Kyoto University, Japan
Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA
Swann Perarnaud, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Fabrizio Petrini, Intel, Inc., USA
Thomas Ropars, University of Grenoble Alps, France
Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs, USA
Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
Yogesh Simmhan, IISc, Bangalore, India
Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Robert Wisniewski, Intel, Inc., USA
Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Ming Zhao, Arizona State University, USA

ARCHITECTURE
Primary
Miurali Annavaram, University of Southern California, USA
Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, USA
Omer Khan, University of Connecticut, USA
Nam Sung Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Asit K. Mishra, Intel, Inc., USA
Joshua San Miguel, University of Toronto, Canada
James Tuck, North Carolina State University, USA
Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Daniel Wong, University of California, Riverside, USA
Huiyang Zhou, North Carolina State University, USA
Regular
Jung Ho Ahn, Seoul National University, South Korea
Meena Arunachalam, Intel, Inc., USA
Abdel-Hameed Badawi, New Mexico State University, USA
Arkaprava Basu, AMD, USA
Sung Woo Chung, Korea University, Korea
Lide Duan, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Holger Fronig, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany
Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern University, USA
Houman Homayoun, George Mason University, USA
Jaehyuk Huh, KAIST, South Korea
Koji Inoue, Kyushu University, Japan
Hyeran Jeon, San Jose State University, USA
Hong Jiang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Russ Joseph, Northwestern University, USA
Myoungsoo Jung, Yonsei University, South Korea
Tushar Krishna, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Eren Kursun, J.P. Morgan, USA
Tao Li, NSF and University of Florida, USA
Gary Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Umit Ogras, Arizona State University, USA
Ozcan Ozturk, Bilkent University, Turkey
Smruti Rajan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Inida
Timothy G. Rogers, Purdue University, USA
Eric Rotenberg, North Carolina State University, USA
Resit Sendag, University of Rhode Island, USA
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Radu Teoderescu, Ohio State University, USA
Sriram Vajapeyam, Freelance Researcher
Praveen Yedlapalli, VMware, USA
Keun Soo Yim, Google, USA
Lunkai Zhang, University of Chicago, USA

MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Primary
Costas Bekas, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Labs, USA
Sharon Broude Geva, University of Michigan, USA
Elisa Heymann, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Andrew Lumsdaine, Pacific Northwest National Lab & University of Washington, USA
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, Ireland
Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA
Xipeng Shen, North Carolina State University, USA
Shuaiwen Leon Song, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Regular
Jing Bi, Beijing University of Technology, China
Almadena Chtchelkanova, National Science Foundation, USA
Toni Collis, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK
Georg Hager, Erlangen Regional Computing Center, Germany
Shigang Li, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Teng Long, Google, USA
Hatem Ltaief, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Tanu Malik, DePaul University, USA
Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK
Ana-Maria Oprescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Olaf Schenk, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Yuzhe Tang, Syracuse University, USA
Wenjun Wu, Beihang University, China
Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan