PARA 12 Call for Papers

PARA 12 - Call for Papers

Scope

The main theme of PARA12 is State of the Art in Scientific and Parallel  Computing with a special theme "Towards Exascale". Interesting topics  include (but are not restricted to) algorithms, software, tools, environments  as well as applications for scientific computing, high-performance computing,  grid computing, cloud computing, and interactive visualization.

Important dates and deadlines

Registration opens                             December    8, 2011
Deadline for extended abstracts (3-4 pages)    January    31, 2012
Deadline for minisymposium proposals   January    31, 2012
Notification of acceptance               March 15, 2012
Early-bird fee ends                            March 30, 2012
Registration ends                              May 31, 2012
PARA12 Workshop                           June    10-13, 2012
Deadline for proceedings papers (10-15 pages)  September   1, 2012

Conference proceedings

 fter the workshop, ten best contributions will be selected and invited for  writing a full article (10-15 pages) to the conference proceedings, published  in the Springer-Verlag series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The  proceedings will include also all the extended abstracts (to provide the  overview on the state-of-the-art in scientific computing) as well as review  articles on the minisymposia. The full articles and the minisymposium  articles will be peer-reviewed. Submission of an extended abstract does not  bind the author for contributing a full article.

Contributed talks and posters

 The contributed talks are presented in nine parallel sessions or in plenary  sessions and have duration of either 30 min or 45 minutes. The oral  contributions which are not selected can be converted into poster  contributions.

There will be a poster session on Tuesday June 12. Poster contributions  require an extended abstract as well.

 The abstracts are submitted via the Springer Online Conference System at

 http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/home/PARA2012

 Minisymposia

 There will be three parallel minisymposia on defined current topics (on  Monday June 11), each with duration of 5 hours.

Person interested in organizing a minisymposium proposes a description  of the minisymposium by email to para12@csc.fi and the program committee  selects the symposia to be realized. The organizer of a minisymposium commits  to writing a review article on the minisymposium, possibly with minisymposium  speakers as co-authors. Speakers in minisymposia are not requested to  submit an extended abstract at all, but the organizer of the minisymposium  selects the contributions.

 Interactive sessions

 Two interactive sessions for Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings and  Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions will be organized on Tuesday June 12 in  parallel. Their topics are proposed similarly with the minisymposia.

 The SIG/BoF sessions will not contribute to the conference proceedings.

 ABOUT PARA 2012

Place
Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland

 Programme

 June 10, 2012:     Tutorials (topics to be announced) 
June 11-13, 2012:  PARA 2012 Workshop sessions

 See the conference web site for the detailed programme.

 There will be a reception on June 11 and a conference dinner on June 12.

 Social activities for accompanying persons will be offered.

Principal members of organizing and steering committees

Per Öster, CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland 
Pekka Manninen, CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland 
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 
Jerzy Wasniewski, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark 

Further information

http://www.csc.fi/para12

Contact information

Email: para12@csc.fi
Tel: +358 50 3819 039
Fax: +358 9 4572 302

PARA 2012
CSC - IT Center for Science
PO Box 405
FI-02101 Espoo
FINLAND