[hpc-announce] Euro-EDUPAR Workshop 2018 - Deadline extended until May 27

[Rizos Sakellariou]

Euro-EDUPAR Workshop 2018 - Deadline extended until May 27

August 27, 2018
Turin, Italy
http://www.euroedupar.tu-darmstadt.de

held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2018
https://europar2018.org

Scope and objectives
Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is in all 
the computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and desktops to 
clusters, large-scale data centers and supercomputers, often comprising CPUs
and/or coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). It becomes now vital 
to train new generations of scientists and engineers in the use of these 
computational systems: parallelism-related topics must be incorporated in 
Computer
Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs.

In 2010 the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing 
launched the Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing, with 
Core Topics for Undergraduates, and in 2011 started the workshop EduPar,
dedicated to Parallel and Distributed Computing Education. Given the 
differences in education in different parts of the world, the Euro-EDUPAR 
workshop aims to analyze PDC Education in a European context, taking into 
account the
structure and organization of European education.

In this context, the 4th European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed 
Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) invites 
unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and 
other educational and research institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching 
of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering curriculum as well as in 
Computational Science with PDC and/or High Performance Computing (HPC) 
concepts, with emphasis on European undergraduate teaching. The workshop 
especially seeks papers that report on experiences incorporating PDC topics 
into undergraduate core courses taken by the majority of students on a degree 
course. Methods, pedagogical approaches, tools, and techniques that have 
potential for adoption across the European teaching community are of particular interest.

Topics
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) teaching in the European space
2. Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms
3. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments
4. Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum
5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses
6. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning
7. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC
8. e-Learning, e-Laboratory, online courses related to PDC
9. PDC teaching experiences at non-university levels: secondary school, industry, etc

Submission guidelines

Submission
The submissions will follow the Euro-Par guidelines, in PDF format, and should 
not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from 
the Springer Web site.
ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip

Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair).
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2018ws

The 12-page limit is comprehensive (text, figures, references). Complete LaTeX 
sources must be provided for accepted papers. Short papers and work-in-progress 
papers can be submitted and presented at the workshop, but they will not
be eligible for the post-conference proceedings published by Springer where 
only full papers between 10 and 12 pages long will be published. Submissions 
will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee and will be
assessed according to impact at European level, the novelty of contributions, 
impact on broader undergraduate curriculum, relevance to the goals of the 
workshop, results and methodology. The workshop proceedings will be published 
in a LNCS Euro-Par 2018 Workshops volume after the conference. Only full papers 
between 10 and 12 pages long which were presented at the workshop will be 
included.

Important dates
May 27, 2018: Paper submission deadline (extended)
June 25, 2018: Author notification
July 6, 2018: Paper due, for informal workshop proceedings
August 27, 2018: Workshop (full day)
October 2, 2018: Camera-ready paper (including LaTeX sources) deadline

Travel support
Authors of accepted papers may apply for travel support - typically granted in 
the form of a free registration.

Organization

General Co-Chairs
Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts, USA

Steering Committee
Henri E. Bal, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands
Alexey Lastovetsky, Univesity College Dublin, Ireland
Christian Lengauer, University of Passau, Germany
Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium
Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts, USA
Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Paul G. Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK
Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia

Program Co-Chairs
Felix Wolf, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK

Program Committee
Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal
Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow PL and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Aurelien Cavelan, University of Basel, Switzerland
Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA
Gennaro Cordasco, Universita' della Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Italy
Efstratios Gallopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain
Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland
Vania Marangozova-Martin, Grenoble University, France
Tomas Margalef, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Lena Oden, Forschungszentrum J?lich, Germany
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Geppino Pucci, Universita' di Padova, Italy
Erven Rohou, INRIA, France
Emil Slusanschi, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Juan Tourino, University of A Coru?a, Spain
Jesper Larsson Tr?ff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia

Sponsorship
This workshop is supported by SPPEXA, the DFG Program 1648 Software for 
Exascale Computing.

Contact
Felix Wolf <wolf at cs.tu-darmstadt.de>