[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] EuroMPI 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS
Recent Advances in Message Passing Interface. 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, September 23-26, 2012 www.eurompi2012.org BACKGROUND AND TOPICS EuroMPI is the preeminent meeting for users, developers and researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications of message-passing parallel computing, in particular in and related to the Message Passing Interface (MPI). The annual meeting has a long, rich tradition, and the 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting will again be a lively forum for discussion of everything related to usage and implementation of MPI and other parallel programming interfaces. Traditionally, the meeting has focused on the efficient implementation of aspects of MPI, typically on high-performance computing platforms, benchmarking and tools for MPI, short-comings and extensions of MPI, parallel I/O and fault tolerance, as well as parallel applications using MPI. The meeting is open towards other topics, in particular application experience and alternative interfaces for high-performance heterogeneous, hybrid, distributed memory systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * MPI implementation issues and improvements * Extensions to and shortcomings of MPI * Tools and environments for MPI * Hybrid and heterogeneous programming with MPI and other interfaces * Relation of MPI to alternative interfaces for hybrid/heterogeneous distributed memory systems * Interaction between message-passing software and hardware, in particular new high performance architectures * Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems * Performance evaluation for MPI and MPI based applications * Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations * Applications using message-passing, in particular in Computational Science and Scientific Computing * Non-standard message-passing applications * Parallel algorithms in the message-passing paradigm * Algorithms using the message-passing paradigm The meeting will feature contributed talks on the selected, peer-reviewed papers, invited expert talks covering upcoming and future issues, a vendor session where selected vendors will present their new developments in hybrid and heterogeneous cluster and high-performance architectures, a poster session, and a tutorial day. As in 2011, EuroMPI 2012 will include the special session IMUDI dedicated to improving MPI user and developer interaction. The special session will have the same deadlines as the conference, but its own CFP and feature its own specialist program committee that will review all dedicated IMUDI submissions. This session should attract strongly application focused papers showing potential or problems with MPI and current MPI practice. IMUDI papers may be shorter and may center on problem analysis rather than solution, and will thus contribute to intensify discussion between MPI developers and application programmers. Other, special sessions may be organized, and proposals are solicited. Proceedings for EuroMPI 2012 will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). A Special Issue of the Springer "Computing" journal is planned for a selection of the best papers of the conference. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Contributors are invited to submit a full paper as a PDF document not exceeding 10 pages in English. The title page should contain an abstract of at most 100 words and five specific, topical keywords. The paper must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. 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 with Springer 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 contributions will be fully peer reviewed by the program committee. Papers shall be submitted electronically via Easychair, see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurompi2012 Papers with a very strong application focus concerned with use of MPI and possible obstacles should be considered for submission to the IMUDI special session, see http://press.mcs.anl.gov/imudi SCHEDULE, IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full papers and poster abstracts: May 5th, 2012 * Author Notification: June 11th, 2012 * Camera Ready papers due: July 6th, 2012 * Tutorial(s): September 23rd, 2012 * Conference: September 24-26th, 2012 GENERAL CHAIR Jack Dongarra ORGANIZERS, PC CHAIRS Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, s...@par.univie.ac.at Jesper Larsson Träff, Vienna University of Technology, tr...@par.tuwien.ac.at PROGRAM COMMITTEE TBA CONFERENCE VENUE EuroMPI 2012 will be held in Vienna, Austria, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna is easily accessible by plane and train, and in addition to the conference has a highly attractive cultural heritage. CONFERENCE FEES The conference will hopefully be well supported by sponsors, which will help directly towards keeping the fees low. As far as possible, special student fees will be offered.
