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Call for papers: Workshop on LARGE-SCALE PARALLEL PROCESSING

to be held in conjunction with
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Atlanta, Georgia
April 23rd, 2010

EXTENDED DEADLINE: December 18th 2009 (Final)

Selected work presented at the workshop will be published in a
special issue of Parallel Processing Letters.
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The workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing is a forum that
focuses on computer systems that utilize thousands of processors
and beyond. This is a very active area given the goals of many
researchers world-wide to enhance science-by-simulation through
installing large-scale multi-petaflop systems at the start of
the next decade. Large-scale systems, referred to by some as
extreme-scale and Ultra-scale, have many important research
aspects that need detailed examination in order for their
effective design, deployment, and utilization to take place.
These include handling the substantial increase in multi-core on
a chip, the ensuing interconnection hierarchy, communication, and
synchronization mechanisms. The workshop aims to bring together
researchers from different communities working on challenging
problems in this area for a dynamic exchange of ideas. Work at
early stages of development as well as work that has been
demonstrated in practice is equally welcome.

Of particular interest are papers that identify and analyze novel
ideas rather than providing incremental advances in the following
areas:

- LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS : exploiting parallelism at large-scale,
the coordination of large numbers of processing elements,
synchronization and communication at large-scale, programming
models and productivity

- MULTI-CORE : utilization of increased parallelism on a single
chip (MPP on a chip such as the Cell and GPUs), the possible
integration of these into large-scale systems, and dealing with
the resulting hierarchical connectivity.

- NOVEL ARCHITECTURES AND EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEMS : the design of
novel systems, the use of processors in memory (PIMS),
parallelism in emerging technologies, future trends.

- APPLICATIONS : novel algorithmic and application methods,
experiences in the design and use of applications that scale to
large-scales, overcoming of limitations, performance analysis
and insights gained.

Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be
considered, as well as work that has demonstrated impact at
small-scale that will also affect large-scale systems. Work may
involve algorithms, languages, various types of models, or
hardware.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers should not exceed eight single-space pages (including
figures, tables and references) using a 12-point font on 8.5x11
inch pages. Submissions in PostScript or PDF should be made
using EDAS (www.edas.info). Informal enquiries can be made to
djk@lanl.gov. Submissions will be judged on correctness,
originality, technical strength, significance, presentation
quality and appropriateness. Submitted papers should not have
appeared in or under consideration for another venue.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: December 18th 2009 (Final)
Notification of acceptance: January 15th 2010
Camera-Ready Papers due: February 1st 2010

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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Darren J. Kerbyson Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ram Rajamony IBM Austin Research Lab
Charles Weems University of Massachusetts

STEERING COMMITTEE

Johnnie Baker Kent State University
Alex Jones University of Pittsburgh
H.J. Siegel Colorado State University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ghoerge Almasi IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab
Taisuke Boku University of Tsukuba, Japan
Marco Daneluto University of Pisa
Martin Herbordt Boston University
Lei Huang University of Houston
Daniel Katz University of Chicago
Jesus Labarta Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain
John Michalakes NCAR, Boulder
Celso Mendes University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
Bernd Mohr Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Stathis Papaefstathiou Microsoft
Michael Scherger Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Harvey Wasserman NERSC/LBNL
Gerhard Wellein University of Erlangen, Germany
Pat Worley Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Workshop Webpage: http://www.ccs3.lanl.gov/LSPP