Fifth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models
and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2)
Sept. 10th, 2012

To be held in conjunction with ICPP-2012: The 41st International
Conference on Parallel Processing, Sept. 10-13, 2012, Pittsburgh, USA

Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2012/

SCOPE
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for
high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas,
experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures
o Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing
o High-performance file and storage systems
o Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations
o Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management
mechanisms for high-end computing

* Programming models and their high-performance implementations
o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel, Fortress and others
o Hybrid Programming Models

* Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization
o Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures
o Job scheduling libraries
o Management libraries for large-scale system
o Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms

* Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms


PROCEEDINGS
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Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be available
at the conference (together with the ICPP conference proceedings).
The accepted papers will be included in and indexed by the IEEE digital library.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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The best papers of P2S2-2012 will be included in a Special Issue on
Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Parallel Computing
(ParCo), edited by Yong Chen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu.

This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the P2S2
workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only, and
the submission deadline is August 17th, 2012.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They
should not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged
based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity.
Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/
for the submission link.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: April 6th, 2012
Author Notification: June 8th, 2012
Camera Ready: July 8th, 2012
Workshop Date: Sept 10th, 2012


PROGRAM CHAIRS
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* Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
* Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
* Yong Chen, Texas Tech University

PUBLICITY CHAIR
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* Qichang Liang, University of Otago


STEERING COMMITTEE
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* William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
* Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University
* George Almasi, IBM Research
* Taisuke Boku, Tsukuba University
* Darius Buntinas, Argonne National Laboratory
* Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
* Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory
* Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
* Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China
* Paul Hargrove, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
* Torsten Hoefler, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
* Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
* Darren J. Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Lab
* Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego
* Heshan Lin, Virginia Tech
* Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
* Sonia Sachs, Department of Energy
* Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences
* Gabriel Tanase, IBM Research
* Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory
* Vinod Tipparaju, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
* Jesper Traff, University of Vienna, Austria
* Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs@mcs.anl.gov