[TCPP-announce] TCPP June-09 Newsletter - Chair Election, Recent Activities
Sushil K. Prasad
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*IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)*
*June 2009 Newsletter*
*Table of Contents:*
- Message from Chair
- Upcoming TCPP Related Events
- Student Related Events
- Call for Conference Papers
- Call for Special Issue
- Call for Participation
- New Book Announcement
- Open Positions
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Dear TCPP member,
Welcome to the June newsletter! As you know, this is the end of my two-year
term. I have been truly honored to serve as your TCPP chair with your
enthusiastic support and to work with many distinguished members on a range
of initiatives. I am pleased that there are five candidates for TCPP chair
position for 2009-2011 =E2=80=93 this is a strong sign of a revitalized TCPP
community. The executive and advisory committees of TCPP would not let me
off the hook so I am in fray too. The voting ends this Thursday, so I urge
you to participate in this process by emailing your vote right away. The
e-ballot is archived here:
http://lists.cc.gatech.edu/pipermail/tcpp-announce/2009-June/000098.html
<http://lists.cc.gatech.edu/pipermail/tcpp-announce/2009-June/000098.html>
Many of us returned from Rome after a very successful IPDPS-09. IPDPS goes
to Atlanta next year. We had some key TCPP activities held there as well.
I am happy to report that after two successful PhD forums with solid student
travel funding from U.S. National Science Foundation and TCPP, the PhD
forum now has been institutionalized as a regular IPDPS event. This years
best poster award went to Francesco Pasquale ("On the Speed of Information
Spreading in Dynamic Networks" - Advisor: Andrea Clementi).
Congratulations!
In the TCPP reception and general membership meeting, with over 200
attendees, 15 volunteers were honored with certificates for a range of TCPP
activities over the last two years (see http://tcpp.computer.org), and
Michael Garland gave an excellent talk on manycore GPU computing.
The second round of TCPP Outstanding Service award was special and kept as
a surprise until the banquet night of IPDPS. Prof. Arnold Rosenberg
revealed the awardees. They are none other than the IPDPS trio due to
retire soon: Sussama Barua, Sally Jelinek, and Bill Pitts! Congratulations
to them again!
We also had a very fruitful TCPP executive and advisory committee meeting
at IPDPS. The committees were very appreciative of NSF funding, resulting
in a record $36K in student travel awards. The total budget of TCPP grew by
more than 300% over the past two years, resulting in a number of activities
and new initiatives. I thank all the volunteers for a superb job!
Here are the updates on the TCPP related conferences followed by CFPs, etc.
Submit yours to tcpp-a...@cc.gatech.edu.
Regards,
Sushil K. Prasad
TCPP Chair
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*Upcoming TCPP Related Events*
*PACT-2009:* Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Raleigh, North Carolina,
September 12-16, 2009
http://pact09.renci.org
PACT is a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers
from the hardware and software areas to present ground-breaking research
related to parallel systems ranging across instruction-level parallelism,
thread-level parallelism, multiprocessor parallelism and large scale
systems.
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*DS-RT-2009: *13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed
Simulation and Real Time Applications* *Techniques
Singapore
October 25-28, 2009
http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2009/
DS-RT is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and
presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by
researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges
related to distributed simulation and real time applications. Authors are
encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance.
Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable.
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*ICPADS-2009: *The Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Systems
Dec. 9~11, Shenzhen, China
http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/icpads09/
Following the previous successful events, ICPADS 2009 will be held in
Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen is a beautiful coastal garden city in South China
situated just across the border from Hong Kong. The conference provides an
international forum for scientists, engineers, and users to exchange and
share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all
aspects of parallel and distributed systems. Papers accepted for ICPADS 2009
conference and workshops will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and
distributed to the participants on USB drives only. All accepted papers will
be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Papers are solicited.
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*HiPC-09:* 16th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing
December 16-19, 2009, Kochi (Cochin), India
The 16th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing
(HiPC 2009) will be held in Cochin, India, during December 16-19, 2009. It
will serve as a forum to present the current work by researchers from around
the world, and act as a venue to provide stimulating discussions and
highlight high performance computing (HPC) activities in Asia. The
conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed
researchers from all over the world. HiPC 2009 will focus on the design and
analysis of high performance computing and networking systems and their
scientific, engineering, and commercial applications.
Student Related Events
Sept 7-11, 2009
XtreemOS summer school
Wadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
XtreemOS is a Linux-based operating systems that includes
Grid functionalities. It is characterised by properties such as
transparency, hiding the complexity of in the underlying distributed
infrastructure; scalability, supporting hundreds of thousands of nodes and
millions of users; and dependability, providing reliability, highly
availability and security. The XtreemOS Summer School will include lectures
on modern distributed paradigms such as Grid computing, Cloud computing, and
network-centric operating systems.
- registration July 26th, 2009.
*Call for Conference Papers*
NEW June 26, 2009
IEEE Cluster 2009 Call for Posters
http://www.cluster2009.org/cfposters.php
NEW June 29, 2009
ANCS 2009: The 5th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and
Communications Systems
NEW June 30, 2009 (Extended)
PMAC-2WN=C3=9509: The 5th International Workshop on Performance Modeling and
Analysis of Communication in Wired and Wireless Networks
http://pmac.nacrg.net/PMAC-2WN09.htm
(ICPADS'2009)
NEW July 1, 2009
UPDAS 2009 Workshop on Ultra Performance and Dependable Acceleration Systems
http://www.arch.cs.titech.ac.jp/updas/
(PDCAT'09)
July 1, 2009
ICDCN 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
July 15, 2009
OPODIS 09 The 13th International Conference On Principle Of Distributed
Systems
June 29, 2009
iWAPT 2009: The Fourth international Workshop on Automatic Performance
Tuning
June 29. 2009
WASL 2009: Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs
http://www.systemloganalysis.com
(SOSP)
July 1, 2009
PDCS 2009:* *The 21st IASTED International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Computing and Systems
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-668.html
July 1, 2009
PDAA 2009: International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and
Applications
http://www.cs.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/pdaa/
(PDCAT09)
July 6, 2009
HEAPS'09: The First International Workshop on High-End and Parallel Storage
Systems
(PACT-2009)
July 10, 2009
PPoPP 2010:* *15th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of
Parallel Programming
June 11, 2009
VVSS 2009: Auditorium (AUD) of the Campus of Eindhoven University of
Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
http://www.laquso.com/events/vvss/2009/index.html
NEW July 15, 2009
The 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual
Environments in conjunction with The 15th International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2009)
December 9 -11, 2009, Shenzhen, China
http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2009/
July 20th, 2009.
PDP 2010: 18th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed
and network-based Processing
July 24, 2009
HPCA 2010: 16th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer
Architecture
*http://www.hpcaconf.org/hpca16*
NEW Aug 3, 2009
ASPLOS 2010: Fifteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for
Programming Languages and Operating Systems
Pittsburgh, PA, March 2010
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/CALCM/asplos10
NEW Aug 31, 2009
Innovations'09: 6th International Conference on Innovations in Information
Technology
*http://www.it-innovations.ae/*
NEW Sept 25, 2009
ICISTM-10: Intl. Conf on Information Systems, Technolgy, and Management
March 2010, Bangkok
http://www.mdi.ac.in/icistm/2010.asp
*Call for Special Issue*
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NEW June 1, 2009
Special Section on Trust, Security and
Privacy for Pervasive Applications of IEICE Transactions on Information and
Systems
Guest Editors-in-Chief: Guojun Wang, Laurence T. Yang, and Kouichi Sakurai
http://www.ieice.org/eng/s_issue/cfp/2010_3ED.pdf
July 15, 2009
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (JRTIP)
Special Issue on Parallel Computing for Real-Time Image Processing
Guest Editors: Mohamed Akil (ak...@esiee.fr) and Laurent Perroton (
l.per...@esiee.fr)
*Call for Participation*
July 30-31, 2009
NSF Funded Workshop on Enabling Data-Intensive Computing: from Systems to
Applications
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/DIC
August 11-13, 2009
SPAA 2009: 21st ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and
Architectures
Calgary, Canada
http://www.spaa-conference.org
NEW August 21-23, 2009
WADS 2009: Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium <http://www.wads.org/>
August 25, 2009
HeteroPar'2009: 7th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools
for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms
http://sips.inesc-id.pt/heteropar/
August 29-31, 2009
TrustCom 2009: IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Trusted Computing and
Communications
http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/trustcom2009
September 12-16, 2009
*PACT-2009:* Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Raleigh, North Carolina,
http://pact09.renci.org
October 4-7, 2009
ICCD-2009:* *XXVII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER DESIGN 2009
Lake Tahoe, California
http://www.iccd-conference.org
October 12-14, 2009
IEEE TSP-09: IEEE International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for
Pervasive Applications
http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/tsp2009/
(IEEE MASS 2009)
November 3-6, 2009
SSS 2009: 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and
Security of Distributed Systems
http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/SSS09/
December 8-11, 2009
*ICPADS 2009**:* Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Systems
http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/icpads09/
December 8-11, 2009.
PDCAT09: International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing,
Applications and Technologies
http://www.cs.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/pdcat09/
December 12-16, 2009
MICRO-42: The 42nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Microarchitecture
http://www.microarch.org/micro42
(IEEE-CS TC-uARCH and ACM SIGMICRO)
December 16-19, 2009
*HiPC'09:** *16th International Conference on High Performance Computing,
*New Book Announcement *
Title : "Metaheuristics: from design to implementation"
Wiley 2009 (624pp), Author: Prof. El-Ghazali Talbi (University of Lille,
CNRS, INRIA)
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470278587.html
Abstract: This book provides a complete background on metaheuristics and
shows readers how to design and implement powerful search algorithms to
solve complex optimization problems across a diverse range of optimization
problems in science and industry. It presents the main design questions for
all families of metaheuristics (e.g. representations, neighborhoods,
parameter tuning, constraint handling, performance evaluation).
*Open Positions*
*
Post-Doctoral Position Job Description** at IBM:* The Dynamic Optimizations
Group at IBM Research (Watson) is seeking a motivated post-doc to join the
Liquid Metal project (http://www.research.ibm.com/liquidmetal).
Applications are expected to possess a doctorate degree in Computer Science
or Electrical Engineering, and have demonstrated an ability to develop and
execute a research plan, and have in-depth knowledge of current technologies
and a command of research literature. We are seeking candidates with strong
experience in programming and working with large software systems, who can
work independently and in teams, and have excellent written and verbal
communication skills. Interested candidates should email Rodric Rabbah (
rab...@us.ibm.com) or David Bacon (d...@watson.ibm.com).
*Postdoctoral/post-masters opportunities at ORNL:* The Computer Science
Research Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has openings in several
projects for researchers at the post-masters and postdoctoral levels. Areas
of particular interest include (i) contract programming and related software
quality approaches for high-performance computational science applications,
(ii) design and development of software frameworks for large-scale modeling
and simulation in areas such as nuclear energy and fusion energy, and (iii)
parallel programming and fault tolerance in HPC component software
environments. Please see the following position postings for specific
qualifications and application procedures:
* Postdoctoral: http://orise.orau.gov/sep/needs/files/ORNL08-110-CSMD.pdf
* Post-masters: http://orise.orau.gov/sep/needs/files/ORNL08-111-CSMD.pdf
For questions about these opportunities, contact David Bernholdt <
bernh...@ornl.gov>.
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