ALERT: Updates before IPDPS 2013 starts on Monday May 20

[Michela Taufer]

IEEE-IPDPS 2013 - May 16, 2013 Updates
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con...@ipdps.org
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27th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
20-24 May 2013
Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Overlooking Boston
575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
(For details on hotel and area activities, go to http://www.cambridge.hyatt.com/en/hotel/activities.html)
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Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing
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Hosted by Boston University, UMASS Amherst, and Northeastern
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•STILL LOOKING FOR COMPARABLE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS?
Go to the the IPDPS Hotel page at http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2013/2013_hotel.html to see the block of rooms for May 19-23 still available at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, right up the road from the Hyatt Regency.

•INDUSTRY TALKS ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Representatives from Adapteva, Intel, Microsoft, and Xyratex will be giving talks on their technology of interest to IPDPS attendees on Wednesday at 1:30 PM in a special industry session. See details athttp://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2013/2013_advance_program.html#wednesday

•IEEE PRESIDENT ATTENDING IPDPS TO PRESENT AWARD
Michael L. Kazar, an engineer whose expertise in network file system architectures has strongly influenced today’s cloud storage systems, will be presented with the 2013 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award by IEEE President Peter Staecker on 22 May at IPDPS 2013 during the evening banquet.

•ELSEVIER WRITERS WORKSHOP
All IPDPS attendees as well as Boston area students are invited to attend the Elsevier Author Workshop to be co-located with IPDPS 2013 on Tuesday, May 21st at 4:00 PM at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. For details seehttp://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2013/ElsevierAuthorWorkshop.pdf
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IPDPS 2013 ADVANCE PROGRAM
The IPDPS 2013 program includes 12 workshops on Monday and 10 on Friday and 27 technical sessions of 108 papers to be presented on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Also on those three days, three invited speakers will make keynote presentations, there will be a PhD Forum, and a special industry session has been added (details below). On Wednesday, the symposium panel will take up a timely topic of special interest to attendees. See Advance Program for details athttp://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2013/2013_advance_program.html

INVITED SPEAKERS

•Shekhar Borkar, Intel Corp.
Exascale Computing—a fact or a fiction?
•James Demmel, University of California, Berkeley
Communication-Avoiding Algorithms for Linear Algebra and Beyond
•Josh Simons, VMware
HPC Cloud Bad; HPC in the Cloud Good

Panel Moderator:
•Raghu Ramakrishnan, Microsoft
Panel Members:
•David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology
•Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
•Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida
•Assaf Schuster, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
•Alan Sussman, University of Maryland
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Attn Session Chairs: Please check the session and time assigned to you in the Advance Program below. If you cannot make the session, please contact the Program Chair to arrange a substitute.
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IPDPS 2013 PhD FORUM
For details, see http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2013/2013_phd_forum.html

IEEE-IPDPS 2013 WORKSHOPS
For individual programs, go to http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2013/2013_workshops.html

VMware TUTORIAL (Tuesday, May 21 at 7 PM)
Resource Management in VMware Powered Cloud: Concepts and Techniques
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Martin Herbordt (Boston University, USA)
Charles C. (Chip) Weems (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)

PROGRAM CHAIR
Sanjay Ranka (University of Florida, USA)

PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS
-ALGORITHMS: Frédéric Vivien (INRIA, France)
-APPLICATIONS: Assaf Schuster (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
-ARCHITECTURE: David Kaeli (Northeastern University, USA)
-SOFTWARE: David Padua (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

WORKSHOPS CHAIR (see listing of workshops below)
Ümit V. Çatalyürek (Ohio State University, USA)

PhD FORUM CO-CHAIRS
Luc Bougé (ENS Cachan, France)
Bo Hong (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

LOCAL PARTICIPATION & COMMERCIAL CHAIR
Ayse Coskun (Boston University, USA)