PPOPP 2012 - 2012 17th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming

17th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on
Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2012)
February 25-29, 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana

Call for Papers

PPoPP is a forum for leading work on all aspects of parallel programming, including foundational and theoretical aspects, techniques, tools, and practical experiences. In the context of the symposium, "parallel programming" encompasses work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, and large scale machines). Given the rise of parallel architectures into the consumer market (desktops, laptops, and mobile devices), PPoPP is particularly interested in work that addresses new parallel workloads, techniques and tools that attempt to improve the productivity of parallel programming, and work towards improved synergy with such emerging architectures. Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Parallel programming theory and models
Formal analysis and verification
Parallel programming languages
Compilers and runtime systems
Task-parallel libraries
Parallel application frameworks
Software productivity for parallel programming
Middleware for parallel systems
Performance analysis, debugging and optimization
Development, analysis, or management tools
Parallel algorithms
Parallel applications
Concurrent data structures
Synchronization and concurrency control
Software engineering for parallel programs
Fault tolerance for parallel systems
Software for heterogeneous architectures
Programming tools for parallel and heterogeneous systems
Parallelism in non-scientific workloads: web servers, search, analytics
Papers should report on original research relevant to parallel programming, and should contain enough background materials to make them accessible to the entire parallel programming research community.

Papers describing experiences should indicate how they illustrate general principles; papers about parallel programming foundations should indicate how they relate to practice. Poster submissions should meet similar criteria for originality and relevance, but may present emerging ideas or results that are not yet sufficiently developed for a full paper.

All submissions must be made electronically through the conference web site. Abstracts must include contact information, the full list of authors and their affiliations, and a description (100-400 words) of the anticipated content of the paper. Full paper submissions must be in PDF formatted for US lettersize paper. They must not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive) in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number). Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm (use the 9 pt template). Over-length submissions will be summarily discarded by the Program Chair. Submissions will be judged on correctness, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity.

Paper submission is double-blind to reduce reviewer bias against or for authors or institutions. Thus, the submissions cannot include author names, institutions or hints based on references to prior work. If authors are extending their own work, they need to reference and discuss the past work in third person, as if they were extending someone else's research. We realize that for some papers it will still reveal authorship, but as long as an effort was made to follow these guidelines, the submission will not be penalized. Authors must identify any conflicts-of-interest with PC members and external review committee members, as defined here: http://www.sigplan.org/review_policies.htm (ACM SIGPLAN policy).

Poster submissions must conform to the same format restrictions, but may not exceed 2 pages in length. Paper submissions that are not accepted for regular presentations will automatically be considered for posters; authors who do not want their paper considered for the poster session should indicate this in their abstract submission. Two-page summaries of posters will be included in the conference proceedings.

The proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted papers and posters will be required to sign the ACM copyright form. Instructions for preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed to authors of accepted papers. Instructions for preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed to authors of accepted papers.

Important Dates (Tentative):
Abstract Submission Deadline: Aug. 12, 2011
Paper Submission Deadline: Aug. 19, 2011
Author Rebuttal Period: Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2011
Author Notification: November 18, 2011
Program Committee

P. (Saday) Sadayappan, Ohio State University, Chair
Emery Berger, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Uday Bondhugula, Indian Institute of Science
Greg Bronavetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Luis Ceze, University of Washington
Brad Chamberlain, Cray
Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester
Rudi Eigenmann, Purdue University
Michael Garland, Nvidia
Rajiv Gupta, University of California at Riverside
Francois Irigoin, MINES ParisTech
Hironori Kasahara, Waseda University
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University
John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University
Mario Mendez-Lojo, University of Texas at Austin
Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University
Michael O'Boyle, University of Edinburgh
John Owens, University of California at Davis
Padma Raghavan, Pennsylvania State University
Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research
Xipeng Shen, College of William and Mary
Michelle Strout, Colorado State University
Jeff Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Tech.
Sam Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales