PPAM 2015

11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
PARALLEL PROCESSING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Krakow, Poland,
September 6-9, 2015
http://ppam.pl

The PPAM 2015 conference, eleven in a series, will cover topics in
parallel and distributed computing, including theory and applications,
as well as applied mathematics. The focus will be on models,
algorithms, and software tools which facilitate efficient and convenient
utilization of modern parallel and distributed computing architectures,
as well as on large-scale applications, including big data problems.

PPAM is a biennial conference started in 1994, with the proceedings
published by Springer in the LNCS series. The PPAM Proccedings are
indexed in main databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, and DBLP.
In particular, all the Proceedings of PPAM conferences published in
the LNCS series, including the last PPAM 2013 conference, are covered
by the Web of Science.

Next year the PPAM conference will take place in beautiful Krakow, the
old capital of Poland, a major national academic, cultural and artistic
centre.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Parallel/distributed architectures, enabling technologies
- Cluster and cloud computing
- Multi-core and many-core parallel computing
- GPU computing
- Heterogeneous/hybrid computing and accelerators
- Parallel/distributed algorithms: numerical and non-numerical
- Scheduling, mapping, load balancing
- Performance analysis and prediction
- Performance issues on various types of parallel systems
- Autotuning: methods, tools, and applications
- Power and energy aspects of computation
- Parallel/distributed programming
- Tools and environments for parallel/distributed computing
- Security and dependability in parallel/distributed environments
- HPC numerical linear algebra
- HPC methods of solving differential equations
- Evolutionary computing, meta-heuristics and neural networks
- HPC interval analysis
- Applied Computing in mechanics, material processing, biology and
medicine, physics, chemistry, business, environmental modeling, etc.
- Applications of parallel/distributed computing
- Methods and tools for parallel solution of large-scale problems,
including big data applications
- Large-scale social network analysis


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (tentative list)

David A. Bader Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Pete Beckman Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Costas Bekas IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
Christopher Carothers Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Barbara Chapman University of Houston, USA
Ewa Deelman University of Southern California, USA
Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA
Geoffrey Fox Indiana University, USA
Dieter Kranzlmueller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Vladik Kreinovich University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Alexey Lastovetsky University College Dublin, Ireland
Srinivasan Parthasarathy Ohio State University, USA
Enrique S. Quintana-Orti Universidad Jaime I, Spain
Rizos Sakellariou University of Manchester, UK
Boleslaw K. Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Manuel Ujaldon NVIDIA
Jeffrey Vetter ORNL and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Richard W. Vuduc Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

WORKSHOPS, MINISYMPOSIA, SPECIAL SESSIONS (preliminary list)

- Minisymposium on GPU Computing
- Workshop on Numerical Algorithms on Hybrid Architectures
- Special Session on Efficient Algorithms for Problems with Matrix
and Tensor Decompositions
- Workshop on Models, Algorithms and Methodologies for Hierarchical
Parallelism in New HPC Systems
- WS on Power and Energy Aspects of Computation
- Workshop on Scheduling for Parallel Computing
- Workshop on Language-Based Parallel Programming Models
- Special Session on Frameworks, Libraries and Tools for
Programming Modern Parallel Applications
- Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Parallel Applications
on Large-Scale Systems
- Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology
- Minisymposium on Applications of Parallel Computation in Industry
and Engineering
- Minisymposium of HPC Applications in Physical Science
- Minisymposium on Applied High Performance Numerical Algorithms
in PDEs
- Minisymposium on High Performance Computing Interval Methods
- Workshop on Complex Collective Systems
- Special Session on Algorithms, Methodologies and Frameworks for HPC in Geosciences and Weather Prediction

TUTORIALS (preliminary list)

"Scientific Computing with GPUs" by Dominik Goeddeke and
Manuel Ujaldon team
"Parallel Computing in Java" by Piotr Bała team
"Advanced Scientific Visualization in VisNow" by ICM, Warsaw University

The first day of PPAM 2013 is reserved for tutorials.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Original papers are invited for the conference. Authors should submit full
papers (draft version, PDF file, together with abstract) using the online
submission system before April 26, 2015. Regular papers are not to exceed
10 pages (LNCS style). Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis
of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics.
Abstracts of accepted papers will be available during the conference in
form of a brochure. Only papers presented at PPAM 2015 will be included
into the proceedings, which will be published after the conference
by Springer in the LNCS series. Full camera-ready versions of
accepted papers will be required by November 15, 2015.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
The authors of the best papers selected by the Program Committee will be
invited to submit extended versions of their work to special issues of
the following journals: Concurrency and Computation: Practice and
Experience, and International Journal of High Performance Computing
Applications.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of Papers: May 11, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2015
Camera-Ready Papers: Nov. 15, 2015

Roman Wyrzykowski Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
CHAIR OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ewa Deelman University of Southern California, USA
VICE-CHAIR OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE