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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

SBAC-PAD 2012

THE 24th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

Columbia University, New York City, October 24-26, 2012

http://www.sbc.org.br/sbac/2012


Submission Deadline: June 29, 2012

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SBAC-PAD is an established international conference series dating
back to 1987. Each year the conference has traditionally presented
leading edge developments in high performance applications, as well as
the latest trends in computer architecture and parallel and distributed
technologies.

In 2012 the symposium will be held outside Brazil for the first time.

SBAC-PAD 2012 will be hosted by Columbia University, New York City, USA.
Pending approvals, it will be jointly sponsored by SBC (Brazilian Computer
Society), IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing), and
IEEE Computer Society.

The conference traditionally has strong international participation.
The selection process is competitive, with acceptance rates below 33%.
The proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will also be available
online through the IEEE Digital Library.

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts on topics
from a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including
computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers,
algorithms, networks, distributed systems and applications.
Specifically, topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Application-specific systems
- Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis
- Cloud, Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer systems
- Embedded and pervasive systems
- GPUs, FPGAs and other accelerator architectures
- High-performance system design for analytics and social networking
- Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming
- Modeling and simulation methodology
- Operating systems and virtualization
- Cryptography, data protection and security in HPC
- Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications
- Power and energy-efficient systems
- Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture
- Real-world applications and case studies
- Reconfigurable and fault-tolerant systems

All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality,
technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, interest
and relevance to the conference attendees. We also seek to provide a
forum for the early dissemination of original contributions on emerging
topics, such as programming systems and tools for many-core processors,
management software for solid-state storage systems, all aspects of game
consoles, green IT and data-center-scale computing. Submissions on new
topics will be reviewed with the understanding that they are likely to
contain more limited quantitative evaluations than those on established
topics. Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the
IEEE conference formatting guidelines.

The authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit extended
versions of their work for possible publication in special issues of
relevant top quality international journals.


Important Dates
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- Paper submission deadline: June 29, 2012
- Author Notification: August 10, 2012
- Camera-ready version: August 24, 2012
- Conference: October 24-26, 2012


Steering Committee
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Claudio Amorim (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Lucia Catabriga (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)
Jean-Luc Gaudiot (University of California at Irvine, USA)
Alba C. M. A. de Melo (University of Brasilia, Brazil)
Jose Eduardo Moreira (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Philippe Navaux (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Jairo Panetta (Aeronautics Technological Institute, Brazil)
Viktor Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA)
Vinod Rebello (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
Liria Sato (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Bruno Schulze (National Scientific Computing Laboratory, Brazil)
Siang Song (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Alberto De Souza (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)


General Chairs
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Jose Eduardo Moreira (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Jairo Panetta (Aeronautics Technological Institute, Brazil)


Program Committee Co-Chairs
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David Padua (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Philippe O. A. Navaux (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Track Chairs
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Algorithms and Applications: Robert van de Geijn (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Architecture: Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
Software: Calin Cascaval (Qualcomm, USA)
Networks and Distributed Systems: Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers University, USA)




Program Committee (TBA)
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