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From: Ashok Srinivasan (asriniva_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-09 13:50:24


            C A L L F O R P A P E R S

   15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing
                           (HiPC 2008)
                      December 17-20, 2008
                        Bangalore, India
                      http://www.hipc.org
  Deadline: May 19, 2008 (Extended; but title/abstract are due May 12)

The 15th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance
Computing (HiPC 2008) will be held in Bangalore, India, during
December 17-20, 2008. It will serve as a forum to present the current
work by researchers from around the world, and act as a venue to
provide stimulating discussions and highlight high performance
computing (HPC) activities in Asia. The conference has a history of
attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the
world.

The 14th HiPC Conference held in Goa, India, in December 2007, had 53
contributed papers chosen from 253 submissions from 31 countries. The
conference included technical paper sessions, keynotes from leading
HPC researchers, a poster paper session, an exhibition, an industry
session with presentations from leading HPC companies, a HPC user
community meeting, tutorials on hot topics in computing and
networking, and several workshops focused on emerging areas. The 13th
HiPC Conference held in Bangalore, India, in December 2006, had 52
contributed papers that were selected from over 335 submissions from
40 countries, and the 12th HiPC Conference held in Goa, India, in
December 2005, had 50 contributed papers that were selected from over
362 submissions from 30 countries. The HiPC attendance is
approximately 300 with a good mix of participants from India and the
rest of the world. Further information about HiPC 2008 and the HiPC
series of meetings is available on the conference website at
http://www.hipc.org.

HiPC 2008 will focus on the design and analysis of high performance
computing and networking systems and their scientific, engineering,
and commercial applications. In addition to technical sessions
consisting of contributed papers, the conference will include invited
presentations, a poster session, tutorials, and vendor presentations.

CO-SPONSORED BY:
* IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
* ACM SIGARCH
* European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
* IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems
* National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)
* Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT)

HELD IN COOPERATION WITH:
* Goa University
* Indian Institutes of Technology
* Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
* Software Technology Parks of India
* Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

VENUE AND MEETING INFORMATION

Bangalore, a bustling metropolis, is the fifth largest city in India
and the capital of the state of Karnataka. It is the main center of
the Information Technology (IT) industry in India; almost every Indian
and multi- national IT Company has a presence here. Bangalore is home
to the Indian Institute of Science, a premier research institute, and
many other aerospace and high technology industries including the
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. Karnataka is the home to
many ancient Indian architectural marvels, wildlife sanctuaries, rain
forests (Western Ghats), pristine beaches, and rich cultural
traditions

The advance program will be available in July 2008. Please check the
conference website at http://www.hipc.org for updated information.

IMPORTANT DATES

May 12, 2008 Paper Registration Deadline (Title/Abstract)
May 19, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline
May 19, 2008 Workshop Proposals Due
May 19, 2008 Tutorial Proposals Due
July 14, 2008 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
August 18, 2008 Camera-Ready Paper Submission
September 15, 2008 Student Symposium Submissions Due
October 20, 2008 Student Symposium Accept/Reject Decisions
November 07, 2008 Early Registration Deadline

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HiPC 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that
demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance
computing including design and analysis of parallel and distributed
systems, embedded systems, and their applications in scientific,
engineering, and commercial areas.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* High-Performance Computing
* Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
* Parallel Languages and Programming Environments
* Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management
* Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Systems
* Scientific/Engineering/Commercial Applications and Workloads
* Emerging Applications such as Biotechnology and Nanotechnology
* Cluster and Grid Computing
* Peer-to-peer Algorithms and Networks
* Heterogeneous Computing
* Wireless and Mobile Computing
* Communication/Sensor Networks and Embedded Applications
* Interconnection Networks and Architectures
* Scalable Servers and Systems
* High Performance/Scalable Storage Systems
* Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures
* Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing
* Software Support and Advanced Micro-architecture Techniques
* Operating Systems for Scalable High-Performance Computing

MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES

Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may
not exceed 14 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables
and references. Formatting requirements are 12-point font size, single
column, single spaced, with margins of 1 inch on each of the four
sides. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned
without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and
make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size
(8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English.

Manuscript submission will start on April 5, 2008. Manuscript
submission procedures will then be available over the Web at
http://www.hipc.org. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a
readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by May 19,
2008. Manuscripts should demonstrate current research in any area of
high performance computing. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will
be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,
significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to
the conference attendees.

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is
not currently under review for any other conference or journal.
Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review
and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to)
notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and
sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date,
exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not
be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair at the address
below for further information or clarification. Notification of review
decisions will be mailed by July 14, 2008. Camera-ready papers are due
by August 18, 2008. The proceedings will be published by
Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be
available at the conference.

Program Chair: P. Sadayappan
                 Ohio State University, USA
                 Email: saday_at_[hidden]

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Best paper awards, sponsored by Infosys, will be given for outstanding
contributed papers.

WORKSHOPS

Proposals are solicited for workshops to be held in conjunction with
the main conference. Interested individuals should submit a proposal
by May 19, 2008 to the Workshops Chair. Additional details and
submission guidelines will be available at the conference website.

Workshops Chair: Manimaran Govindarasu
                   Iowa State University, USA
                   Email: gmani_at_[hidden]

STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

HiPC 2008 will feature the first student research symposium on High
Performance Computing (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student
research, and providing an international forum to highlight student
research accomplishments. The symposium will also expose students to
the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The one-day
symposium will feature brief presentations by student authors on their
research, followed by a poster exhibit. Short invited talks by leading
HPC researchers/practitioners will be included in the program. The
symposium reception will provide an opportunity for students to
interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from
academia and industry. To be considered, students should submit a 5
page extended abstract of their research. Submission procedures will
be available at the Student Symposium web site, accessible from
http://www.hipc.org, after August 15, 2008. For additional details,
please see the conference web site or contact the Symposium Co-Chairs.

Symposium Co-Chairs: Ashok Srinivasan
                       Florida State University
                       Email: asriniva_at_[hidden]

                       Rajeev Thakur
                       Argonne National Laboratory, USA
                       Email: thakur_at_[hidden]

TUTORIALS

Proposals are solicited for tutorials to be held at the
meeting. Interested individuals/groups should submit a proposal by May
19, 2008 to the Tutorials Chair. The proposal (5 pages maximum) should
include a brief description of the intended audience, a lecture
outline, and a vita for each lecturer. For additional details, contact
the Tutorials Chair.

Tutorials Chair: Rajeev Sivaram
                   Google, USA
                   Email: rajeev.sivaram_at_[hidden]

INDUSTRY EXHIBITION

Companies and R&D laboratories are encouraged to present their
exhibits at the meeting. Additionally, a full day of vendor
presentations is planned. Further details can be obtained at the
conference website or by contacting the Industry Liaison Chair.

Industry Liaison Chair: Rama K. Govindaraju
                          Google, USA
                          Email: rama.govindaraju_at_[hidden]

USER/INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM ON HPC TECHNOLOGIES, APPLICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

The symposium will bring together providers and users of HPC to
provide a forum for presenting the state-of-the-art in HPC platforms
and technologies, for discussing best practices and for exchanging
experiences. HPC applications and the experiences of application
developers will be of special interest to this mini symposium. The
symposium will consist of invited as well as contributed talks by
leading experts from industry, research laboratories and universities,
as well as panels and open discussions. For further details and to
submit abstract, please visit the conference website.

User/Industry Symposium Co-Chairs: Rama K. Govindaraju
                                     Google, USA
                                     Email: rama.govindaraju_at_[hidden]

                                     Santosh Sreenivasan
                                     Talentain, India
                                     Email: santosh_at_[hidden]

TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS FROM INDIA

HiPC 2008 will be awarding travel scholarships to students from Indian
Engineering Colleges to encourage them to attend the conference. This
merit-based scholarship will cover their travel and accommodation
expenses. The last date of application is October 31, 2008. For more
details, please visit the conference website or contact the
Scholarships Co-Chairs.

Scholarships Co-Chairs: Sumam David
                          NITK, India
                          Email: sumam_at_[hidden]

                          Madhusudan Govindaraju
                          SUNY Binghamton, USA
                          Email: mgovinda_at_[hidden]

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HiPC 2008 ORGANIZATION
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
   Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
   Ramamurthy Badrinath, HP, India

VICE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
   Rajendra V. Boppana, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
   Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India

PROGRAM CHAIR
   P. Sadayappan, Ohio State University, USA

PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS
   Algorithms: David Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
   Applications: Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA
   Architecture: David Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA
   Communication Networks: Jose Neuman de Souza, Federal Univ. of Ceara,
Brazil
   Mobile and Sensor Computing: Chen-K Tham, National University of
Singapore
   Systems Software: Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong

STEERING CHAIR
   Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
   Manimaran Govindarasu, Iowa State University, USA

STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
   Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA
   Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

TUTORIALS CHAIR
   Rajeev Sivaram, Google, USA

INDUSTRY LIAISON CHAIR
   Rama K. Govindaraju, Google, USA

HiPC USER SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
   Rama K. Govindaraju, Google, USA
   Santosh Sreenivasan, Talentain, India

CYBER CO-CHAIRS
   Ananth Narayan, Intel, India
   Kamesh Madduri, Georgia Institute for Technology, USA

FINANCE CO-CHAIRS
   Ajay Gupta, Western Michigan University, USA
   Thondiyil Venugopalan, India

LOCAL COORDINATION CO-CHAIRS
   Kalyana Krishna, Talentain, India
   Raghavendra Buddi, Netapp, India

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
   Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
   Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA
   Manisha Gajbe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

REGISTRATION CO-CHAIRS
   Sally Jelinek, Electronic Design Associates, USA
   Jyothsna Kasturirengan, Fiberlink, India

SCHOLARSHIPS CO-CHAIRS
   Sumam David, NITK, India
   Madhusudan Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE
   P. Anandan, Microsoft Research, India
   David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
   Ramamurthy Badrinath, HP, India
   Rudramuni B., Dell India R&D, Bangalore, India
   Frank Baetke, HP, USA
   Anirban Chakrabarti, Infosys, India
   R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, India
   Harish Grama, IBM, India
   Manish Gupta, India Systems and Technology Lab, IBM, India
   Vittal Kini, Intel, India
   Ashwini Nanda, Computational Research Lab., India
   Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA (Chair)
   Venkat Ramana, Cray-Hinditron, India
   Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA
   Santosh Sreenivasan, Talentain Technologies, India
   V. Sridhar, Satyam Computer Services Ltd., India
   Harrick M. Vin, Tata Research, Development and Design Center (TRDDC),
Pune, India

Steering Committee 2008 membership also includes the general
co-chairs, program chairs and vice general co-chairs from 2007, 2008
and 2009.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Algorithms:
   Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA
   Guojing Cong, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
   Camil Demetrescu, University of Rome, Italy
   Devdatt Dubhashi, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
   Matteo Frigo, Cilk Arts, USA
   Anshul Gupta, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
   Klaus Jansen, University of Kiel, Germany
   Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University, USA
   Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras, Greece
   Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA
   Jesper Larsson Traeff, NEC Laboratories, Europe
   Kamesh Madduri, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
   Greg Malewicz, Google, USA
   Madhav Marathe, Virginia Tech., USA
   Geppino Pucci, University of Padova, Italy
   Sandeep Sen, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
   Christian Sohler, University of Paderborn, Germany
   Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
   Tiffani Williams, Texas A&M University, USA

Applications:
   Henrique Andrade, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
   Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University, USA
   Nikos Chrisochoides, College of William and Mary, USA
   I-Hsin Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
   Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
   Jens Gustedt, LORIA, France
   Fumihiko Ino, Osaka University, Japan
   P. J. Narayanan, Indian Institute of Information Technology,
Hyderabad, India
   Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, USA
   Jim Kohl, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
   Kalyan Kumaran, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
   Gary Kumfert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
   Steve Parker, University of Utah, USA
   Padma Raghavan, Pennsylvania State University, USA
   Ramesh Rajagopalan, Dell, India
   Satish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science, India
   Yao Zheng, Zhejiang University, China

Architecture:
   Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain
   Rajeev Balasubramonian, University of Utah, USA
   Anasua Bhowmik, AMD, India
   Antonio Gonzalez, Intel Barcelona Research Center, Spain
   Ananth Grama, Purdue University, USA
   Kim Hazelwood, University of Virginia, USA
   Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
   Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
   Hrishi Murukkathampoondi, AMD, India
   Ranjani Parthasarathy, Anna University, India
   Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA
   Rodric Rabbah, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
   J. Ramanujam, Louisiana State University, USA
   Partha Ranganathan, HP Research Laboratories, USA
   Pat Teller, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

Communication Networks:
   Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
   Rajendra Bopanna, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
   Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
   Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
   John Kim, Northwestern University, USA
   Jiuxing Liu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA,
   David Lowenthal, University of Georgia, USA
   Amith Mamidala, Ohio State University, USA
   Jarek Nieplocha, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
   Thirumale Niranjan, NetApp Research, India
   Fabrizio Petrini, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
   Sayantan Sur, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
   Vinod Tipparaju, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
   Weikuan Yu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
   Xin Yuan, Florida State University, USA

Mobile and Sensor Computing:
   Kevin Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
   Twan Basten, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
   Mun-Choon Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
   Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
   Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
   Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA
   Peng-Yong Kong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
   Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
   Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada
   Hoon-Tong Ngin, Infocomm Development Authority, Singapore
   Marimuthu Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia
   Karim Seada, Nokia Research, USA
   Winston Seah, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
   Vikram Srinivasan, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, India
   Wendong Xiao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
   Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Systems Software:
   Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
   Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
   Bronis De Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
   R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, India
   Jaejin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
   Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
   Philippe Navaux, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
   Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M University, USA
   Vijay A. Saraswat, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
   Henk Sips, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
   Ninghui Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
   Yoshio Tanaka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology, Japan
   Putchong Uthayopas, Kasetsart University, Thailand
   Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
   Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Ashok Srinivasan              Phone:  (850) 644-0559
Associate Professor           Fax:    (850) 644-0058
Dept. of Computer Science     Email:  asriniva_at_[hidden]
Florida State University      URL:    www.cs.fsu.edu/~asriniva
253 Love Building             Office: 169 Love Building
Tallahassee FL 32306-4530
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