Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone

impressive changes over recent years. New architectures, advanced

programming models, improved efficiency and novel application

domains have rapidly become the central focus of this discipline.

These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of parallel

and distributed computational paradigms with other rapidly evolving

technologies in different disciplines. It is of paramount importance

to review and assess these new developments in relation with the recent

research achievements in the different areas of parallel and distributed

computing, considering both the industrial and scientific point of view.

PDP 2019 will provide a forum for the discusssion of these and other issues

through original research presentations and will facilitate the exchange of

knowledge and new ideas at the highest technical and applicative level.

PDP 2019 will be held in Pavia, IT, February 13-15, 2019.

Conference web site https://www.pdp2019.eu

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* Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

– Parallel Computing: massively parallel machines; embedded parallel and distributed systems; multi- and many-core systems; GPU and FPGA based parallel systems; parallel I/O; memory organisation.

– Distributed and Network-based Computing: Cluster, Grid, Web and Cloud computing; mobile computing; interconnection networks.

– Big Data: large scale data processing; distributed databases and archives; large scale data management; metadata; data intensive applications.

– Models and Tools: programming languages and environments; runtime support systems; performance prediction and analysis; simulation of parallel and distributed systems.

– Systems and Architectures: novel system architectures; high data throughput architectures; service-oriented architectures; heterogeneous systems; shared-memory and message-passing systems; middleware and distributed operating systems; dependability and survivability; resource management.

– Advanced Algorithms and Applications: distributed algorithms; multi-disciplinary applications; computations over irregular domains; numerical applications with multi-level parallelism; real-time distributed applications.

* In addition, special sessions will address upcoming novel topics:

– GPU computing and Many Integrated Core Computing

– Advances in High-Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine

– Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing

– Energy Efficient Management of Parallel Systems, Platforms, and Computations

– Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications

– High Performance Computing in Modeling and Simulation

– On-chip parallel and network-based systems

– Storage architectures and Data Transfer systems for BigData and Exascale Computing

– High Performance Computing for Neuroscience

– High Performance Computing in Astronomy and Astrophysics

– Parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions in Systems Biology

– Parallel Numerical Methods and Libraries for Heterogeneous Multi/Manycores

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* Important dates:

– Paper submission: 15 Oct, 2018

– Acceptance notification: 15 Nov, 2018

– Camera ready due: 15 Dec, 2018

– Conference: 13 – 15 Feb, 2019

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* Submission of papers

Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track

through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2019). The possibility to submit a paper to a special session will appear soon.

Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors\’ own work entries should be substituted with the string \”omitted for blind review\”.

Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge