From: Vijay Karamcheti Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: PPoPP'99 Call for Papers Date: 4 Oct 1998 03:36:10 GMT Organization: Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <6v6qfa$cin$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu PPoPP '99 CALL FOR PAPERS SEVENTH ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming in conjunction with the ACM Federated Computing Research Conference Atlanta, Georgia, May 1999 The goal of the PPoPP Symposia is to provide a forum for papers on the principles and foundations of parallel programming, tools and techniques for parallel programming, and experiences in using parallel programming to solve applications problems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * design and implementation of parallel programming languages and systems (including object-oriented languages such as Java); * experiences in using parallel programming to solve applications problems; * programming experience with parallel programming languages and systems; * restructuring compilers and program manipulation systems for parallel systems; * runtime systems issues for parallel systems; * environments, debuggers, monitoring tools and operating system support for parallel programming; * the relationship between parallel programming languages, compilers and machine architecture; and * performance aspects of parallel programming systems. Note that parallel should be construed broadly to include high performance distributed computing (i.e. grids and metacomputing). Papers should report on original research in any of these areas of parallel programming, and should contain enough background material to make them accessible to the entire parallel programming research community. This year, we are particularly soliciting papers that describe experiences in using parallel programming for specific applications problems. For PPoPP, such papers should describe experiences of broad relevance that highlight and document the practical applicability of principles, and the strengths and weaknesses of tools, and platforms. For example, a paper that simply gave a high-level description of a parallel implementation of a structural mechanics application would not be appropriate for this conference. On the other hand, if this experience highlighted some weakness in the compiler or runtime system of the parallel platform, a paper describing this experience and drawing relevant conclusions would be appropriate for PPoPP. In general, papers reporting on experience should indicate how the experiments illustrate general principles; papers oriented towards foundations should indicate how the work illuminates or influences practice. Submission Procedure Electronic submission submission is strongly encouraged. Electronic submissions will be accepted until Thursday October 29, 1998 . See the conference web page at http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/ppopp99/ for electronic submission instructions. Authors who are unable to submit electronically should submit 16 copies of their extended abstract to the program committee chair, shipped to arrive by the submission deadline indicated above. All submissions should be 10 pages maximum, excluding bibliography and figures, typed double spaced or typeset 10-point on 16-point spacing. Submissions should include a return mailing address and if possible an electronic mail address. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by January 15, 1999 . Final versions of accepted papers must be received in camera-ready form by February 15, 1999 . Authors of accepted papers will be expected to sign a copyright release form. Proceedings will be distributed at the conference and possibly as a special issue of SIGPLAN Notices; they will subsequently be available from ACM. Papers published in proceedings are eligible for subsequent publication in refereed ACM journals at the discretion of the editor of the particular journal. Papers describing essentially the same work must not have been published elsewhere or be simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere. Online Conference Information This Call for Papers and additional information about the conference can be obtained at the following URL: http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/ppopp/ Program Chair Andrew Chien University of California, San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering 9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0114 La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 U.S.A. voice: (619)822-2458 fax: (619)822-2459 achien@cs.ucsd.edu General Chair Marc Snir IBM T. J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 218 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 U.S.A. snir@us.ibm.com Publicity Chair Vijay Karamcheti New York University Department of Computer Science 715 Broadway, Room 704 New York, NY 10003 U.S.A. vijayk@cs.nyu.edu Program Committee * John Carter, University of Utah * Andrew Chien (chair), University of California, San Diego * Jack Dongarra, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester * Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory * Mary Hall, USC Information Sciences Institute * Anthony Hey, Southampton University * James Larus, Microsoft Research * Calvin Lin, University of Texas at Austin * Rusty Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory * Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology * Barton Miller, University of Wisconsin at Madison * Keshav Pingali, Cornell University * J. P. Singh, Princeton University * Chau-wen Tseng, University of Maryland at College Park -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel