== 3RD CALL FOR PAPERS SBAC-PAD 2018 International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Lyon, France September 24-27, 2018 http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/sbac-pad

SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world.  In this edition, the symposium will be held at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, in France. Known as the Gastronomy Capital, Lyon is the 2nd largest economic and industrial region in France, and has become one of the favorite destinations for tourism in Europe. Lyon is also considered the most liveable city in France according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, performance analysis, and applications.  Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Application-specific systems - Architecture and programming support for emerging domains (Big Data,   Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems) - Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis - Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems - Embedded and pervasive systems - GPUs, FPGAs and accelerator architectures - Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming - Modeling and simulation methodology - Operating systems and virtualization - Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications - Power and energy-efficient systems - Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture - Real-world applications and case studies - Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the SBAC-PAD 2018 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore (pending), one of the authors must register at the full rate. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on a selected journal.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Abstract deadline: May 25, 2018 - Paper deadline: June 1, 2018 - Rebuttal period: June 27-28, 2018 - Author notification: July 6, 2018 - Camera-ready: July 20, 2018

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs - Laurent Lefèvre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) - Alfredo Goldman (Sao Paulo University, Brazil) - Marcos Dias de Assuncao (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France)

Program Co-chairs - Rosa M Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) - Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, USA) - Lucas Mello Schnorr (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Publicity Chairs - Alba Cristina de Melo (University of Brasilia, Brazil) - Pierre Sens (LIP6, Inria Paris Rocquencourt, France) - Vaidy Sunderam (Emory University, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Computer Architecture Track Chair: Kalyana Chadalavada (Intel, USA) - Celso Mendes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Cristiana Bentes (UERJ, Brazil) - Edson Borin (University of Campinas, Brazil) - Farah Fargo (University of Arizona, USA) - Felipe Maia Galvao Franca (COPPE-UFRJ, Brazil) - Jose Moreira (IBM, USA) - Kalyana Chadalavada (Intel, USA) - Naveen Cherukuri (NVIDIA, USA) - Rathish Jayabharathi (Intel, USA) - Rodolfo Azevedo (University of Campinas, Brazil)

Networking and Distributed Systems Track Chair: Wagner Meira, Jr, (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) - Andrey Britto (UFCG, Brazil) - Bruno Schulze (LNCC, Brazil) - Carlos Varela (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Italy) - Dorgival Guedes Neto (UFMG, Brazil) - Elias P. Duarte Jr. (UFPR, Brazil) - Harold Castro (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) - Javier Garcia-Blas (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain) - Juan Durillo (University of Innsbruck, Austria) - Nicolae Bogdan (Huawei, China) - Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK) - Priscila Solis (UnB, Brazil) - Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) - Rodrigo Fonseca (Brown, USA) - Ronaldo Ferreira (UFMS, Brazil) - Sandra Gesing (Notre Dame University, USA) - Zhiyi Huang (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Parallel Applications and Algorithms Track Chair: Enrique Quintana-Ortí, (Universidad Jaime I, Spain) - Emmanuel Agullo (Inria, France) - José Ignacio Aliaga (Computer Science and Engineering Department, University Jaime I, Spain) - Hartwig Anzt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) - Michael Bader (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - Kei Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) - Alba Melo (University of Brasilia, Brazil) - Pablo Ezzatti Udelar (Uruguay) - Mathieu Faverge (Bordeaux INP, France) - Domingo Gimenez (University of Murcia, Spain) - Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Hatem Ltaief (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) - Piotr Luszczek (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA) - Viktor Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA) - Olaf Schenk (Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland) - Leonel Sousa (Lisbon University, Portugal) - Guillermo Taboada (University of A Coruña, Spain) - Pedro Valero-Lara (The University of Manchester, UK) - Jaroslaw Zola (State University of New York, USA) - Jairo Panetta (INPE, Brazil)

Performance Evaluation Track Chair: Arnaud Legrand (CNRS/Inria/Université Grenoble Alpes, France) - Laura Carrington (San Diego Supercomputer Center/University of California, USA) - Cesar De Rose (PUCRS, Brazil) - Alfredo Goldman (University of São Paulo, Brazil) - Andreas Knupfer (TU Dresden, Germany) - Swann Perarnau (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) - Martin Schulz (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Frederic Suter (CC IN2P3 / CNRS, France)

System Software Track Chair: Adrien Lebre (IMT Atlantique/Inria/LS2N, France) - Rafael Asenjo (Dpt. Computer Architecture, Univ. Malaga. Spain) - Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) - Siegfried Benkner (University of Vienna, Austria) - Carlo Bertolli (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, United States) - Francisco Brasileiro (UFCG, Brazil) - Helene Coullon (Inria, France) - Michael Gerndt (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Antonio J. Peña (Barcelona Supercomputing Center -BSC, Spain) - Mauricio Pillon (UDESC, Brazil) - Radu Prodan (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) - Mario Südholt (IMT Atlantique, France) - Cedric Tedeschi (Inria, France) - Ayal Zaks (Intel, Israel)

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