Goals of the PARELEC 2011 Symposium:

* to present advances in parallel computing techniques and their applications in electrical engineering,
* to evaluate maturity and development directions in parallel computing that aim at technical applications,
* to ease mutual stimulation of basic research in parallel computing and applications in electrical engineering,
* to promote new hardware and software tools supporting parallel computing.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Hardware

* Architecture of distributed and parallel systems.
* Multiprocessor and multicore or manycore systems.
* General-purpose computing on graphic processor units.
* Processor and computer clusters.
* Networks.
* Autonomic hardware architectures.
* Wireless distributed technology.
* Sensors (including nanoscale "smart dust").
* Parallel pervasive systems.

Software

* Languages and compilers for distributed and parallel systems.
* Distributed and parallel environments for debugging.
* Operating systems for distributed and parallel platforms.
* Grids and portal computing.

Methodology

* Modelling and optimization methods.
* Automatic parallelization.
* Fault-tolerant systems.
* Real time distributed computing.
* Reconfigurable computing.
* Tests and verification.
* Performance monitoring and analysis tools.
* Scalability and efficiency.
* Security.

Applications

* Applications of distributed and parallel processing.
* Numerical methods.
* Distributed aspects in telecommunication and broadband technology.
* Distributed and parallel signal / image processing.

Timeline
Paper submissions December 13, 2010
Notification of acceptance January 24, 2011
Camera ready versions due February 28, 2011
Final conference program March 28, 2011
PARELEC 2011 Conference April 3 - 7, 2011