The 25th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing

Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil, October 23-26, 2013


General Chairs
Manoel Eusebio de Lima (UFPE, Brazil)
Wagner Meira Jr. (UFMG, Brazil)

Program Chairs
Jean-Luc Gaudiot (University of California, USA)
Guido Araújo (Unicamp, Brazil)

Organizing Committee
Abel Guilhermino da Silva Filho (UFPE, Brazil)
Cristiano Coêlho de Araújo (UFPE, Brazil)
Edna Natividade da Silva Barros (UFPE, Brazil)
Manoel Eusebio de Lima (UFPE, Brazil)
Marcelo Luiz Monteiro Marinho (UFPE, Brazil)
Patrícia Buarque Pereira (UFPE, Brazil)
Victor Wanderley da Silva Barros (UFPE, Brazil)

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts on topics from a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers,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. Specific topics of interest are available here.

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. Paper format instructions are available here. Papers should be submitted here. 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 are available here. SBAC-PAD Committees are available here.

SBAC-PAD is an international annual conference, started in 1987. In 2013, this symposium will be hosted by Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. In each new edition an overview of new developments, applications and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies are presented. The conference is open for faculty members, researches, specialists and graduate students. With a strong international participation, the submissions come typically from several countries around the world.

SBAC-PAD 2013 will be held in Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil. Situated in the northeast of Brazil, this exciting place is one of the most preferred destinations, for tourism, in Brazil. In Porto you find world class resorts, beautiful beaches and a nice infrastructure for conferences.

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
Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming
Modeling and simulation methodology
Operating systems and virtualization
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