[HiPEAC-announce] Euro-Par 2008 - Call for Participation

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                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                   14th International Euro-Par Conference
            European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing
                            (Euro-Par 2008)

                      http://europar2008.caos.uab.es
                         europar2008 at caos.uab.es

               ** EARLY Registration Fee until June the 24th **

                          August 26-29th, 2008
                 ULPGC, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

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Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to
the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed
computing.

Euro-Par focuses on all aspects of hardware, software, algorithms and
applications in this field. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a
forum within which to promote the development of parallel and
distributed computing both as an industrial technique and an academic
discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the
state of the practice.

Topics:
1. Support tools and environments
2. Performance prediction and evaluation
3. Scheduling and load balancing
4. High performance architectures and compilers
5. Parallel and distributed databases
6. Grid and cluster computing
7. Peer to peer computing
8. Distributed systems and algorithms
9. Parallel and distributed programming
10. Parallel numerical algorithms
11. Distributed and high performance multimedia
12. Theory and algorithms for parallel computation
13. High performance networks
14. Mobile and ubiquitous computing

Full details on the topics, including topic description and chairs, are
available on the Euro-Par 2008 website (europar2008.caos.uab.es).

**** CONFERENCE PROGRAM ****

89 papers (selected from more than 260 submitted) with authors coming
from more than 20 countries will be presented.

Three selected Best Papers will be presented in a special session:

  *  Directory-Based Metadata Optimizations for Small Files in PVFS
       Michael Kuhn; Julian Kunkel; Thomas Ludwig

  * Automatic Prefetching with Binary Code Rewriting in Object-based DSMs
       Jean Christophe Beyler, Michael Klemm, Michael Philippsen, and
          Philippe Clauss

  * Reducing Packet Dropping in a Bufferless NoC
       Crispin Gomez; Maria Engracia Gomez; Pedro Lopez; Jose Duato


**** INVITED TALKS ****

- Prof. Antonio González (Intel, UPC)
    "Elastic Parallel Architectures"

- Dr. Martin Schulz (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab.)
     "Keeping up with Growing Machine Sizes: Challenges and Opportunities
       for Scaling Tools"

- Prof. Franck Cappello  (INRIA)
     To be defined


**** INDUSTRIAL SESSION **********

1- "Mega Data Centers"
José E. Moreira
Chief Architect, Commercial Scale Out
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

2- "Dynamic Errors: Symptoms and Solutions"
Jaume Abella
Senior Research Scientist
Intel Barcelona Research Center - UPC

3- Hewlett-Packard Corp. (To be announced)


**** ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS **********

Held on August 25-26th, before the regular EuroPar sessions

* CoreGRID Symposium
* 3rd Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid
Computing (VHPC'08)
* The UNICORE Summit 2008
* 2nd Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip (HPPC 2008)
* The 5th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models
(Gecon2008)
* Workshop on Secure, Trusted, Manageable and Controllable Grid Services
(SGS 08)
* Workshop on Productivity and Performance – Tools for HPC Application
Development (PROPER 2008)
* Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) on the GRID (ROIA 2008)
* Abstractions for Distributed Systems(DPA 2008)

Links to the specific workshop websites are available on the Euro-Par
2008 website (europar2008.caos.uab.es).


**** VENUE ****

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a Spanish city, the capital city of Gran
Canaria which is one of the Canary Islands. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
is today a cosmopolitan city. It has a big sea-port ("Puerto de la Luz"
harbor), and five main beaches, among them, "Las Canteras" beach has no
counterpart in the world.

The population of the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria was 377,056 as
of 2006, making it the largest city in the Canary Islands and the eighth
most populous city in Spain.
Gran Canaria, a Biospheric Reserve, is a real continent in miniature,
which will enthrall you with its long golden beaches and endless dunes
of white sand, its green ravines, picturesque villages and valuable
historical quarters that will take you back to former times.

According to a study carried out by Thomas Whitmore, director of
research on climatology at the Syracuse University (USA), the city of
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria enjoys the best climate in the world.

The nearest airport is the Gran Canaria International Airport ( Las
Palmas - Gando International Airport) located 18 km from the capital.

The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) was founded in
1989. Despite its youth, in a few years the ULPGC has managed to
position itself as a well worth Spanish university, emphasizing the use
of the Information and Telecommunications technologies, the programs of
international mobility and at its close involvement with the local society.


**** CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS ****

Emilio Luque, (CAOS)UAB, Barcelona,Spain (General Chair)
Domingo Benítez, ULPGC, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (Vice-Chair)
Tomàs Margalef, (CAOS)UAB, Barcelona,Spain (Vice-Chair)