[hpc-announce] Call for Papers: PPoPP 2021 Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

[Zehra Sura]

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                        Call for Papers

           PPoPP 2021: 26th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium
         on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

    Seoul, S. Korea. (collocated with CC-2021, HPCA-2021 and CGO-2021)
                 Dates: Feb 27-Mar 3, 2021.
                 https://ppopp21.sigplan.org
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Submission URL: https://ppopp21.hotcrp.com

Important dates:

Paper registration and abstract submission: August 6, 2020
Full paper submission: August 13, 2020
Early notification for papers not passing first stage: October 10, 2020
Author response period: October 30–November 2, 2020
Author Notification: November 16, 2020
Artifact submission to AE committee (tentative): November 26, 2020
Artifact notification by AE committee (tentative): December 26, 2020
Final paper due: January 2, 2021
All deadlines are at midnight anywhere on earth (AoE), and are firm.



Scope:

PPoPP is the premier forum for leading work on all aspects of parallel
programming, including theoretical foundations, techniques, languages,
compilers, runtime systems, tools, and practical experience. In the context
of the symposium, “parallel programming” encompasses work on
concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multi-threaded, heterogeneous,
clustered, and distributed systems; grids; data centers; clouds; and large
scale machines). Given the rise of parallel architectures in the consumer
market (desktops, laptops, and mobile devices) and data centers, PPoPP
is particularly interested in work that addresses new parallel workloads
and issues that arise out of extreme-scale applications or cloud platforms,
as well as techniques and tools that improve the productivity of parallel
programming or work towards improved synergy with such emerging
architectures.

Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Compilers
and
runtime systems for parallel and heterogeneous systems - Concurrent data
structures - Development, analysis, or management tools - Fault tolerance
 for parallel systems - Formal analysis and verification -
High-performance / scientific computing - Libraries - Middleware for
parallel
systems - Parallel algorithms - Parallel applications and frameworks -
Parallel programming for deep memory hierarchies including nonvolatile
memory -
Parallel programming languages - Parallel programming theory and models -
Parallelism in non-scientific workloads: web, search, analytics, cloud,
machine learning - Performance analysis, debugging and optimization -
Programming tools for parallel and heterogeneous systems - Software
engineering
for parallel programs - Software for heterogeneous architectures - Software
productivity for parallel programming - Synchronization and concurrency
control

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
experience
should indicate how they illustrate general principles or lead to new
insights.
PPoPP submissions will be evaluated based on their technical merit and
accessibility. Submissions should clearly motivate the importance of the
problem
being addressed, compare to the existing body of work on the topic, and
explicitly
and precisely state the paper’s key contributions and results towards
addressing
the problem. Submissions should strive to be accessible both to a broad
audience
and to experts in the area. Authors of papers that do not pass the first
round of
reviewing will receive a notification so that they can start working as
early as
possible on revising their papers and resubmitting them to other conferences
or journals.


Paper Submission:

Conference submission site: https://ppopp21.hotcrp.com.

All submissions must be made electronically through the conference web site
and include an abstract (100–400 words), author contact information, the
full
list of authors and their affiliations. Full paper submissions must be in
PDF
formatted printable on both A4 and US letter size paper.

All papers must be prepared in ACM Conference Format using the 2-column
acmart format: use the SIGPLAN proceedings template
acmart-sigplanproc-template.tex for Latex,and interim-layout.docx for Word.
You may also want to consult the official ACM information on the Master
Article
Template and related tools. Important note: The Word template
(interim-layout.docx)
on the ACM website uses 9pt font; you need to increase it to 10pt.

Papers should contain a maximum of 10 pages of text (in a typeface no
smaller
than 10 point) or figures, NOT INCLUDING references. There is no page limit
for references and they must include the name of all authors (not {et
al.}).
Appendices are not allowed, but the authors may submit supplementary
material,
such as proofs or source code; all supplementary material must be in PDF
format.
Looking at supplementary material is at the discretion of the reviewers.

Submission is double blind and authors will need to identify any potential
conflicts
 of interest with PC and Extended Review Committee members, as defined
here: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Review/ (ACM SIGPLAN
policy).

PPoPP 2021 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. To
facilitate
this process, submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in
any way.
Authors should leave out author names and affiliations from the body of
their
submission and from the supplementary material. They should also ensure that
any references to authors’ own related work should be in the third person
(e.g.,
not “We build on our previous work …” but rather “We build on the work of
…”).
The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to
an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible
for
them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in
the
name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing
the paper more difficult. In particular, important background references
should
not be omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors should feel free to
disseminate
their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For
instance,
authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their
research
ideas. Authors with further questions on double-blind reviewing are
encouraged
to contact the Program Chair by email.

Submissions should be in PDF and printable on both US Letter and A4 paper.
Papers may be resubmitted to the submission site multiple times up until
the
deadline, but the last version submitted before the deadline will be the
version
reviewed. Papers that exceed the length requirement, that deviate from the
expected format, or that are submitted late will be rejected.

All submissions that are not accepted for regular presentations will be
automatically
considered for posters. Two-page summaries of accepted posters will be
included
in the conference proceedings

To allow reproducibility, we encourage authors of accepted papers to submit
their
papers for Artifact Evaluation (AE). The AE process begins after the
acceptance
notification, and is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess
how the
artifacts support the work described in the papers. Artifact evaluation is
voluntary
and will not affect paper acceptance, but will be taken into consideration
when
selecting papers for awards. Papers that go through the AE process
successfully
will receive one or several of the ACM reproducibility badges, printed on
the
papers themselves. More information will be posted on AE website.

Deadlines expire at midnight anywhere on earth.