PPOPP 2012 - 2012 17th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming

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Category PPOPP 2012

Deadline: August 19, 2011 | Date: February 25, 2012-February 29, 2012

Venue/Country: Louisiana, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-06-10 08:58:56 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2012)

February 25-29, 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana

Call for Papers

PPoPP is a forum for leading work on all aspects of parallel programming, including foundational and theoretical aspects, techniques, tools, and practical experiences. In the context of the symposium, "parallel programming" encompasses work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, and large scale machines). Given the rise of parallel architectures into the consumer market (desktops, laptops, and mobile devices), PPoPP is particularly interested in work that addresses new parallel workloads, techniques and tools that attempt to improve the productivity of parallel programming, and work towards improved synergy with such emerging architectures. Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Parallel programming theory and models

Formal analysis and verification

Parallel programming languages

Compilers and runtime systems

Task-parallel libraries

Parallel application frameworks

Software productivity for parallel programming

Middleware for parallel systems

Performance analysis, debugging and optimization

Development, analysis, or management tools

Parallel algorithms

Parallel applications

Concurrent data structures

Synchronization and concurrency control

Software engineering for parallel programs

Fault tolerance for parallel systems

Software for heterogeneous architectures

Programming tools for parallel and heterogeneous systems

Parallelism in non-scientific workloads: web servers, search, analytics

Papers should report on original research relevant to parallel programming, and should contain enough background materials to make them accessible to the entire parallel programming research community.

Papers describing experiences should indicate how they illustrate general principles; papers about parallel programming foundations should indicate how they relate to practice. Poster submissions should meet similar criteria for originality and relevance, but may present emerging ideas or results that are not yet sufficiently developed for a full paper.

All submissions must be made electronically through the conference web site. Abstracts must include contact information, the full list of authors and their affiliations, and a description (100-400 words) of the anticipated content of the paper. Full paper submissions must be in PDF formatted for US lettersize paper. They must not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive) in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number). Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm (use the 9 pt template). Over-length submissions will be summarily discarded by the Program Chair. Submissions will be judged on correctness, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity.

Paper submission is double-blind to reduce reviewer bias against or for authors or institutions. Thus, the submissions cannot include author names, institutions or hints based on references to prior work. If authors are extending their own work, they need to reference and discuss the past work in third person, as if they were extending someone else's research. We realize that for some papers it will still reveal authorship, but as long as an effort was made to follow these guidelines, the submission will not be penalized. Authors must identify any conflicts-of-interest with PC members and external review committee members, as defined here: http://www.sigplan.org/review_policies.htm (ACM SIGPLAN policy).

Poster submissions must conform to the same format restrictions, but may not exceed 2 pages in length. Paper submissions that are not accepted for regular presentations will automatically be considered for posters; authors who do not want their paper considered for the poster session should indicate this in their abstract submission. Two-page summaries of posters will be included in the conference proceedings.

The proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted papers and posters will be required to sign the ACM copyright form. Instructions for preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed to authors of accepted papers. Instructions for preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed to authors of accepted papers.

Important Dates (Tentative):

Abstract Submission Deadline: Aug. 12, 2011

Paper Submission Deadline: Aug. 19, 2011

Author Rebuttal Period: Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2011

Author Notification: November 18, 2011

Program Committee

P. (Saday) Sadayappan, Ohio State University, Chair

Emery Berger, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Uday Bondhugula, Indian Institute of Science

Greg Bronavetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Luis Ceze, University of Washington

Brad Chamberlain, Cray

Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester

Rudi Eigenmann, Purdue University

Michael Garland, Nvidia

Rajiv Gupta, University of California at Riverside

Francois Irigoin, MINES ParisTech

Hironori Kasahara, Waseda University

Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University

John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University

Mario Mendez-Lojo, University of Texas at Austin

Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University

Michael O'Boyle, University of Edinburgh

John Owens, University of California at Davis

Padma Raghavan, Pennsylvania State University

Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research

Xipeng Shen, College of William and Mary

Michelle Strout, Colorado State University

Jeff Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Tech.

Sam Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales