SBAC-PAD is an annual international conference series, the first of which was held 21 years ago, in 1987. Each conference has traditionally presented new developments and high performance computing, as well as the latest trends in computer architecture. The conference has strong international participation, with submissions from over dozen countries, and is quite competitive, with around 100 submissions and a 30% acceptance rate in the latest years (see http://www.sbc.org.br/sbac/ for program of previous years).

In 2008, the symposium will be held in the beautiful Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. SBAC-PAD 2008 is sponsored by the SBC (Brazilian Computer Society), the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing), and the IEEE Computer Society through the Technical Committees on Computer Architecture (TCCA) and Scalable Computing (TCSC).

Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts that present original unpublished research in all aspects of high performance computing and computer architecture, and their applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Application-specific Architectures
* Benchmarking, Performance Measurements and Analysis
* Cache and Memory Architectures
* Embedded Systems
* Fault-Tolerant Architectures and Systems
* Grid, Cluster, and Peer-to-Peer Computing
* High Performance Applications and Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
* Interconnection Networks, Routing, and Communication
* Languages, Compilers and Tools for Parallel and Distributed Programming
* Load Balancing and Scheduling
* Microarchitecture
* Operating Systems and Virtualization
* Parallel and Distributed Architectures
* Pervasive and Heterogeneous Computing
* Real World Applications and Case Studies
* Reconfigurable Systems

Paper submission must be performed on-line at http://www.sbc.org.br/sbac/2008. The deadline is May 19, 2008.

The authors of the best selected papers will also be invited to submit extended versions of their work for possible publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming.

General Chair

Edson Caceres (UFMS, Brazil)


Program Co-chairs

Viktor Prasanna (USC, USA)
Walfredo Cirne (Google, USA)

Steering Committee

Alberto F. de Souza (UFES, Brazil)
Cláudio L. Amorim (UFRJ, Brazil)
Gabriel Silva (UFRJ, Brazil)
Jairo Panetta (INPE, Brazil)
Líria M. Sato (USP, Brazil)
Philippe O. Alexandre Navaux (UFRGS, Brazil)
Siang W. Song (USP, Brazil)
Wagner Meira Jr (UFMG, Brazil)

Program Committee

Alba Melo, Universidade de Brasilia
Alberto Ferreira De Souza, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Alfredo Goldman, USP
Alvaro Coutinho, COPPE/Universidade Federal do Rio e Janeiro
Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon
Bertil Folliot, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI
Bruno Schulze, LNCC
Celso Mendes, University of Illinois
Cesar De Rose, PUCRS
Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong
Christophe Cerin, Universite Paris13
Claudio Amorim, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Claudio Geyer, UFRGS
Cristina Boeres, Instituto de Computacao, UFF
Danny Raz, Technion University
David Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology
David Kaeli, Northeastern University
Denis Trystram, �cole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de
Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble
Dhabaleswar K. Panda, The Ohio State University
Edil Fernandes, COPPE-UFRJ
Edson Cáceres, UFMS
Eduardo Bergamini, INPE/MCT
Fabricio Alves Barbosa da Silva, Universidade de Lisboa
Felipe França, COPPE-UFRJ
Francisco Brasileiro, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Franck Cappelo, LRI
Gabriel Silva, UFRJ
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University - Community Grids Lab
Gilles Fedak, LRI/INRIA Futurs
Greg Malewicz, Google
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
Jairo Panetta, INPE/CPTEC
Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, Irvine
José Fortes, University of Florida
José Saito, Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Jose Moreira, IBM Research
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University
Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University
Laxmikant Kale, UIUC
Ling Zhuo, University of Southern California
Liria Sato, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Lucia Catabriga, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Lucia Drummond, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Luiz DeRose, Cray Inc.
Luiza Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro
Maria Clicia Castro, UERJ
Mario Nemirovsky, ConSentry Networks / Barcelona Supercomputer Center
Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia
Mauricio Breternitz Jr, Intel
Nader Bagherzadeh, University of California, Irvine
Nicolas Maillard, UFRGS
Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Orlando Loques, UFF
Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Patrick Crowley, Washington University
Peter Rounce, University College London
Philippe Navaux, UFRGS
Priscila Lima, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Rafael Lins, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne
Renato Silva, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica
Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University
Ricardo Corrêa, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Ron Perrott, Queen's University Belfast
Ronaldo A. L. Goncalves, Universidade Estadual de Maringá
Sérgio Kofuji, Universidade de São Paulo
Siang Song, Universidade de São Paulo
Srikumar Venugopal, University of Melbourne
Valmir Barbosa, UFRJ
Vinod Rebello, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Wagner Meira, Jr., UFMG
Yale Patt, The University of Texas at Austin

Additional Call for Papers information:


* Paper Format
* Committees
* Important Dates