***** Extended Deadline *****

The 27th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, October 18-21, 2015

The 27th SBAC-PAD will be held in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Known as "the
Island of Magic", Florianópolis is the favorite destination for tourism in
the Southern part of Brazil. Florianópolis is known by its 42 beautiful
beaches, special resorts, historical buildings, environmental protected
areas, and by an economy strongly based on information technology.

http://www.sbac-pad.org

-- General Chair
Mario A. R. Dantas (UFSC, Brazil)

-- Program Chairs
Edson Borin (Unicamp, Brazil)
Viktor K. Prasanna (USC, USA)

-- Track Chairs
Anne Benoit (ENS Lyon, France) -- Applications and Algorithms
David R. Kaeli (Northeastern University, USA) -- Architecture
Albert Cohen (Inria, France) -- Software
Dilma Da Silva (Texas A&M University, USA) -- Distributed Systems and
Networks

-- Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Geoffrey Charles Fox (Indiana University, USA)
Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Onur Mutlu (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

-- Publicity Chairs
Christophe Cérin (Paris 13 University, France) - Europe and Africa
Claudio Amorim (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Latin America
Kuan-Ching Li (Providence University, Taiwan) - Asia and Oceania
Miriam Capretz (The University of Western Ontario, Canada) - North America

-- Publications Chair
Hermes Senger (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)

-- Workshop Chair
Alba Melo (University of Brasilia, Brazil)

-- Financial Chair
Márcio Castro (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

-- Organizing Committee
Alfredo Goldman (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Laércio Lima Pilla (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Philippe Navaux (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

-- Important Dates
Abstract deadline: June 7th (Anywhere on earth)
Paper deadline: June 15th (Anywhere on earth)
Rebuttal: July 9th
Author notification: July 19th
Camera ready: August 14th

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts on all aspects of computer
architecture and high performance computing. 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, resilient and fault-tolerant systems

Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE
conference formatting guidelines.
To be published in the SBAC-PAD 2015 Conference Proceedings and to be
eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore (pending), one of the authors
must register at the full rate. Authors may not use a single registration
for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit
extended versions of their papers for publication on the Journal of
Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbacpad2015

-- Parallel Events
16o Simpósio em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho
4th Workshop on Parallel Programming Models (MPP)
6th Workshop on Applications for Multi-Core Architectures (WAMCA)
10o Workshop sobre Ensino em Arquitetura de Computadores (WEAC)
Concurso de Teses e Dissertações em Arquitetura de Computadores e
Computação de Alto Desempenho (WSCAD-CTD)