[mpich-discuss] Euro PVM/MPI 2009 Call for Papers

[Rajeev Thakur]

EuroPVM/MPI 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS
  	
16th European PVMMPI Users' Group Meeting
Espoo, Finland, September 7 - 10, 2009
Web: http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/pvmmpi09/
Organized by CSC - IT Center for Science
Submission website:  
    http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europvmmpi2009 
  	 
BACKGROUND AND TOPICS

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) and MPI (Message Passing Interface)
have become the standard interfaces for high-performance parallel
programming in the message-passing paradigm. EuroPVM/MPI is the most
prominent meeting dedicated to the latest developments of PVM and MPI,
their use, including support tools, and implementation, and to
applications using these interfaces. The EuroPVM/MPI meeting also
encourages discussions of new message-passing and other parallel and
distributed programming paradigms beyond MPI and PVM.

The 16th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting will be a forum for users
and developers of PVM, MPI, and other message-passing programming
environments. Through the presentation of contributed papers, vendor
presentations, poster presentations and invited talks, attendees will
have the opportunity to share ideas and experiences to contribute to the
improvement and furthering of message-passing and related parallel
programming paradigms.

Topics of interest for the meeting include, but are not limited to:

    * PVM and MPI implementation issues and improvements
    * Latest extensions to PVM and MPI
    * PVM and MPI for high-performance computing, clusters and grid
      environments 
    * New message-passing and hybrid parallel programming paradigms,
      eg. with general purpose graphics processors
    * Interaction between message-passing software and hardware
    * Fault tolerance in message-passing programs
    * Performance evaluation of PVM and MPI applications
    * Tools and environments for PVM and MPI
    * Algorithms using the message-passing paradigm
    * Applications in science and engineering based on message-passing

Submissions on applications demonstrating both the potential and
shortcomings of MPI and PVM are particularly welcome.

As in the previous years, the special session 'ParSim' will focus on
numerical simulation for parallel engineering environments. 
EuroPVM/MPI 2009 will also hold the 'Outstanding Papers' session, where 
the best papers selected by the program committee will be presented.


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Contributors are invited to submit a full paper as a PDF document not
exceeding 10 pages in English (2 pages for poster abstracts). In addition,
two more pages may be included on a page charge basis, 50 euros/page. 
The title page should contain an abstract of at most 100 words and five 
specific keywords.
The paper needs to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The usage of LaTeX for
preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready
format is strongly recommended. Style files can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. New work that is not 
yet mature for a full paper, short observations, and similar brief 
announcements are invited for the poster session. 
Contributions to the poster session should be submitted in the form 
of a two page abstract. All these contributions will be fully peer 
reviewed by the program committee.

Papers are to be submitted electronically via the online submission 
system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europvmmpi2009.

Submissions to the special session 'Current Trends in Numerical Simulation 
for Parallel Engineering Environments' (ParSim 2009) are handled and 
reviewed by the respective session chairs. For more information please 
refer to the ParSim website 
(http://www.lrr.in.tum.de/Par/arch/events/parsim09/).

All accepted submissions are expected to be presented at the conference 
by one of the authors, which requires registration for the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

EuroPVM/MPI Conference 
Submission of full papers and poster abstracts 	April 8th, 2009
Notification of authors 	May 11th, 2009
Camera-ready papers 	June 8th, 2009
Tutorials 	Monday, September 7th, 2009
Conference 	Tuesday-Thursday, September 8th-10th, 2009
For up-to-date information, visit the conference web site at 
http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/pvmmpi09/.

ParSIM Session
Submission of papers  	May 6th, 2009
Notification to Authors 	May 26th, 2009
Camera ready papers 	June 8th, 2009

 
PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings consisting of abstracts of invited talks, 
full papers, and two page abstracts for the posters will be published 
by Springer in the LNCS series. Authors are strongly encouraged to read 
carefully the recommendations for publications to facilitate 
the publication procedure.

 
General chair: Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee) 	 

Programme Committee chair: Jan Westerholm (Åbo Akademi University)
PC co-chairs: Juha Fagerholm and Jussi Heikonen (CSC)
Local organizing committee chair: Per Öster (CSC)


CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference is held the Swedish-Finnsih Cultural Centre in Hanasaari,  
Espoo, Finland (www.hanaholmen.fi).

The conference is organized and hosted by CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.