Scope

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing architectures. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop.

A PDF version of the CFP can be found here.

Topics of Interest

The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures
    • Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing
    • High-performance File and storage systems
    • Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations
    • Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management mechanisms for high-end computing
  • Programming models and their high-performance implementations
    • MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, CAF, Chapel, and others
    • Hybrid Programming Models
  • Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization
    • Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures
    • Job scheduling libraries
    • Management libraries for large-scale system
    • Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms
  • Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms

Proceedings

Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format only and will be available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference proceedings).

The published papers will be available at the conference in CD format, and will be submitted to the IEEE CS Digital Library.

Submission Instructions

Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. letter size paper, and should be formatted in a double-column format with a font size 10 pt or larger. They should not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity.

Submissions is currently closed.

Journal Special Issue

The P2S2-2015 workshop papers will be invited to extend the manuscripts to be considered for a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing of the Journal of Supercomputing, edited by Yong CHen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu. This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the P2S2 workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only and the deadline is tentatively set as Nov. 2015.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: April 16th, 2015 (extended to April 30th, 2015) Anywhere on Earth

Author Notification: June 1st, 2015

Camera-Ready Copy: June 15th, 2015

Workshop Dates: Sep 1st, 2015