http://ppi.fudan.edu.cn/appt11

September 26 - 27, 2011

Fudan University, Shanghai

Overview

APPT is a biennially international conference on parallel and distributed processing technologies. Following the success of its past eight conference series, APPT'11 will continue to provide a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss experiences, new ideas, and results related to parallel and distributed processing, including parallel architecture and systems, parallel software and applications, distributed computing, cloud computing and novel computing models and technologies.

Featured Topics

APPT’11 solicits a broad range of contributions that further the knowledge and understanding of all areas and topics pertaining to parallel and distributed computing research and applications. These include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

§  Parallel architectures

Architectures for instruction-level, thread-level and data parallelism;

Multicore architecture;

Special-purpose architectures and GPGPU;

Architecture of the memory hierarchy;

Interconnect architectures for multicore;

Parallel I/O and storage systems;

Power-efficient architectures;

Dependable architectures;

§  Parallel software

Parallel programming models and compilers;

New parallel programming paradigms;

Domain-specific languages for parallel systems;

Multicore runtime systems;

Resource management for parallel systems;

Operating systems and virtualization for multicore and clusters;

High availability, reliability and fault tolerance;

Scalability issues in parallel software and systems;

Performance modeling, analysis and tuning Tools;

§  Distributed and cloud computing

Reliability, availability and security in distributed and cloud systems;

Distributed and cloud storage systems;

Distributed and cloud infrastructure technologies;

Distributed caching, and query processing;

Workload characterization of cloud systems;

Managing, debugging, and diagnosing of cloud systems;

Important Dates (Tentative)

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not currently under consideration elsewhere for publication. Only electronic submissions (PS or PDF) will be considered. Page limit is at most 15 pages (single column, 11pt fonts and 1.5 line spaced, excluding references, figures and tables. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee.

Important: Manuscripts must be accompanied by a signed Springer copyright form (refer to website: http://ppi.fudan.edu.cn/appt11/call.html)

Organizing Committees

General Chair:                     Xuejun Yang (NDUT)

Program co-Chairs:             Oliver Temam (INRIA)

                           Pen-chung Yew (Academic Sinica and UMN)

                                           Binyu Zang (Fudan University)

Local Arrangement Chair:       Enmei Tang (sFudan University)

Publication Chair:                  Rudolf Fleischer (Fudan University)

Program Committees:             See http://ppi.fudan.edu.cn/appt11

Sponsored by

§  Computer Architecture Professional Committee of China Computer Federation

§  National University of Defense Technology

§  Fudan University

§  Intel

§  Shanghai Pudong Association of Computing