CALL FOR PAPER

The 9th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing

(PDSEC-08)

April 14-18, 2008 ~ Miami, Florida, USA


Scope and Interests:

The field of high performance computing has earned prominence through advances in electronic and integrated technologies beginning in the 1940s. Current times are very exciting and the years to come will witness a proliferation in the use of parallel and distributed systems. The scientific and engineering application domains have a key role in shaping future research and development activities in academia and industry, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with tight timing schedules.

This special workshop is to bring together computer scientists, applied mathematicians and researchers to present, discuss and exchange ideas, results, work in progress and experiences in the area of parallel and distributed computing for problems in science and engineering applications and inter-disciplinary applications.

Among the main topics of interest (but not limited to) are:

l   development of advanced parallel and distributed methods,

l   parallel and distributed computing techniques and codes,

l   practical experiences using various parallel and distributed systems with software such as MPI, PVM, and HPFortran, OpenMP, UPC, mpC etc.

l   domain decomposition,

l   loop and task parallelism,

l   scheduling and load balancing,

l   compiler, hardware and OS issues for scientific and engineering computing,

l   memory system and I/O supports for scientific and engineering computing,

l   Hardware/software support for performance, power and energy-aware applications,

l   Network, Mobile/wireless processing and computing,  

l   performance modeling and evaluation of scientific and engineering computing,

l   cluster and grid scientific and engineering computing.

l   biologically inspired algorithms in system model, design and applications.

l   applications to the following areas, but not limited to:

o   computational fluid dynamics and mechanics

o   material sciences

o   space, weather, climate systems and global changes

o   computational environment and energy systems

o   computational ocean and earth sciences

o   combustion system simulation

o   computational chemistry

o   computational physics

o   bioinformatics and computational biology

o   medical applications

o   transportation systems simulations

o   combinatorial and global optimization problems

o   structural engineering

o   computational electro-magnetic

o   computer graphics

o   virtual reality and multimedia

o   semiconductor technology, and electronic circuits and system design

o   dynamic systems

o   computational finance

o   data mining

o   signal and image processing

o   .....

 

Submission Information:

  Authors are expected to submit a paper of at most 20 pages in either PS or PDF format with 5-10 keywordsThe online submission system is here. Program committee members and external reviewers will provide authors with at least three reviews.  Papers will be ranked for relevance to the workshop and technical merit. Accepted papers with at most 8 pages will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as IPDPS-07 proceedings. Selected best papers will be considered for a special issue of International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE).

Important Deadlines:
 

Paper submission Due

 Dec 08, 2007 à Dec 16, 2007

Notification of Acceptance

Jan 12, 2008

Final camera-ready paper

 Jan 28, 2008

Conference Chairs:

Gudula Rünger

(General Co-Chair)

 
 Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Email: ruenger@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de

Guojing Cong

(General Co-Chair)

 
 IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Email: gcong@us.ibm.com

Thomas Rauber

(Program Co-Chair)

  
 
University of Bayreuth, Germany

Email: rauber@uni–bayreuth.de

Zizhong Chen

(Program Co-Chair)

  
 
Jacksonville State University, USA

Email: zchen@jsu.edu

Laurence T. Yang

(Steering Co-Chair)


 
St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Email: lyang@stfx.ca

Yi Pan

(Steering Co-Chair)

 

Georgia State University, USA

Email: cscyip@techie.cs.gsu.edu

Technical/Program Committee:

Eric Aubanel

University of New Brunswick, Canada

David A. Bader

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Purushotham Bangalore

University of Alabama, USA

Ioana Banicescu

Mississippi State University, USA

Martin Buecker

Aachen University of Technology, Germany

Xing Cai

University of Oslo, Norway

Jin Chen

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, USA

Byung Choi

Michigan Tech University, USA

Raphael Couturier

LIFC, BelfortFrance

Rodrigo de Mello

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Frederic Desprez

INRIA, France

Beniamino Di Martino

Second University of Naples, Italy

Len Freeman

University of Manchester, UK

Edgar Gabriel

University of Houston, USA

Luc Giraud

ENSEEIHT, France

George A. Gravvanis

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Georgios Goumas

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Helen Karatza

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Christoph Kessler

Linkoeping University, Sweden

Nectarios Koziris

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Alexey Lastovetsky

University College of Dublin, Ireland

Yiming Li

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Richard Tran Mills

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

John O'Donnell

Glasgow University, UK

Gabriel Oksa

Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic

Ruth E. Shaw

University of New Brunswick, Canada

Chi Shen

Kentucky State University, USA

Mat Sottile

University of Tennessee, USA

Michela Taufer

University of Delaware, USA

Parimala Thulasiraman

University of Manitoba, Canada

Karen Tomko

University of Cincinnati, USA

Juan Touriño

University of A Coruña, Spain

Xuemin Tu

University of California, Berkeley, USA

Lorenzo Verdoscia

ICAR, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Rich Vuduc

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Bingbing Zhou

University of Sydney, Australia

Michelle M. Zhu

Southern Illinois University, USA