Euro-EDUPAR Workshop 2018 - Deadline extended until May 27

August 27, 2018 Turin, Italy http://www.euroedupar.tu-darmstadt.de

held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2018 https://europar2018.org

Scope and objectives Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is in all the computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and desktops to clusters, large-scale data centers and supercomputers, often comprising CPUs and/or coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). It becomes now vital to train new generations of scientists and engineers in the use of these computational systems: parallelism-related topics must be incorporated in Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs.

In 2010 the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing launched the Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing, with Core Topics for Undergraduates, and in 2011 started the workshop EduPar, dedicated to Parallel and Distributed Computing Education. Given the differences in education in different parts of the world, the Euro-EDUPAR workshop aims to analyze PDC Education in a European context, taking into account the structure and organization of European education.

In this context, the 4th European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) invites unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and research institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science with PDC and/or High Performance Computing (HPC) concepts, with emphasis on European undergraduate teaching. The workshop especially seeks papers that report on experiences incorporating PDC topics into undergraduate core courses taken by the majority of students on a degree course. Methods, pedagogical approaches, tools, and techniques that have potential for adoption across the European teaching community are of particular interest.

Topics The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) teaching in the European space 2. Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms 3. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments 4. Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum 5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses 6. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning 7. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC 8. e-Learning, e-Laboratory, online courses related to PDC 9. PDC teaching experiences at non-university levels: secondary school, industry, etc Submission guidelines

Submission The submissions will follow the Euro-Par guidelines, in PDF format, and should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip

Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair). https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2018ws

The 12-page limit is comprehensive (text, figures, references). Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. Short papers and work-in-progress papers can be submitted and presented at the workshop, but they will not be eligible for the post-conference proceedings published by Springer where only full papers between 10 and 12 pages long will be published. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee and will be assessed according to impact at European level, the novelty of contributions, impact on broader undergraduate curriculum, relevance to the goals of the workshop, results and methodology. The workshop proceedings will be published in a LNCS Euro-Par 2018 Workshops volume after the conference. Only full papers between 10 and 12 pages long which were presented at the workshop will be included.

Important dates May 27, 2018: Paper submission deadline (extended) June 25, 2018: Author notification July 6, 2018: Paper due, for informal workshop proceedings August 27, 2018: Workshop (full day) October 2, 2018: Camera-ready paper (including LaTeX sources) deadline

Travel support Authors of accepted papers may apply for travel support - typically granted in the form of a free registration.

Organization

General Co-Chairs Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts, USA

Steering Committee Henri E. Bal, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands Alexey Lastovetsky, Univesity College Dublin, Ireland Christian Lengauer, University of Passau, Germany Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Paul G. Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia

Program Co-Chairs Felix Wolf, TU Darmstadt, Germany Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK

Program Committee Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow PL and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Aurelien Cavelan, University of Basel, Switzerland Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA Gennaro Cordasco, Universita' della Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Italy Efstratios Gallopoulos, University of Patras, Greece Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland Vania Marangozova-Martin, Grenoble University, France Tomas Margalef, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Lena Oden, Forschungszentrum J?lich, Germany Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Geppino Pucci, Universita' di Padova, Italy Erven Rohou, INRIA, France Emil Slusanschi, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Juan Tourino, University of A Coru?a, Spain Jesper Larsson Tr?ff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia

Sponsorship This workshop is supported by SPPEXA, the DFG Program 1648 Software for Exascale Computing.

Contact Felix Wolf wolf@cs.tu-darmstadt.de