PDP 2018 - Call for Papers - http://www.pdp2018.org


Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone impressive changes over recent years. New architectures, advanced programming models, improved efficiency and novel application domains have rapidly become the central focus of this discipline.

These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of parallel and distributed computational paradigms with other rapidly evolving technologies in different disciplines. It is of paramount importance to review and assess these new developments in relation with the recent research achievements in the different areas of parallel and distributed computing, considering both the industrial and scientific point of view.

PDP 2018 will provide a forum for the discusssion of these and other issues through original research presentations and will facilitate the exchange of knowledge and new ideas at the highest technical and applicative level.

PDP 2018 will be held in Cambridge, UK, March 21-23, 2018.
Conference web site http://www.pdp2018.org

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

 Parallel Computing: massively parallel machines; embedded parallel and distributed systems; multi- and many-core systems; GPU and FPGA based parallel systems; parallel I/O; memory organisation.

Distributed and Network-based Computing: Cluster, Grid, Web and Cloud computing; mobile computing; interconnection networks.

Big Data: large scale data processing; distributed databases and archives; large scale data management; metadata; data intensive applications.

Models and Tools: programming languages and environments; runtime support systems; performance prediction and analysis; simulation of parallel and distributed systems.

Systems and Architectures: novel system architectures; high data throughput architectures; service-oriented architectures; heterogeneous systems; shared-memory and message-passing systems; middleware and distributed operating systems; dependability and survivability; resource management.

Advanced Algorithms and Applications: distributed algorithms; multi-disciplinary applications; computations over irregular domains; numerical applications with multi-level parallelism; real-time distributed applications.


In addition, special sessions will address upcoming novel topics:

GPU computing and Many Integrated Core Computing
Advances in High-Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing
Energy Efficient Management of Parallel Systems, Platforms, and Computations
Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications
High Performance Computing in Modeling and Simulation
On-chip parallel and network-based systems
Storage architectures and Data Transfer systems for BigData and Exascale Computing
High Performance Computing for Neuroscience
High Performance Computing in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions in Systems Biology
Parallel Numerical Methods and Libraries for Heterogeneous Multi/Manycores


Important dates:

Paper submission: 15 Sep, 2017

Acceptance notification: 13 Oct, 2017

Camera ready due: 17 Nov, 2017

Conference: 21 - 23 Mar, 2018


Submission of papers

Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format (double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track
through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2018). The possibility to submit a paper to a special session
will appear soon.

Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be
substituted with the string "omitted for blind review".

Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and
Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at
the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of
Knowledge.


Ivan Merelli
Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
93, via F.lli Cervi, 20090 Segrate (Mi), Italy
Phone: +39 02 2642-2606
E-Mail: ivan.merelli@itb.cnr.it

Pietro Liò
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
15, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1223-763604
E-Mail: pl219@cam.ac.uk

Igor Kotenko
Laboratory of Computer Security Problems, SPIIRAS
39, 14th. Liniya, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia
Phone: +7 (812) 328-71-81
E-Mail: ivkote@comsec.spb.ru


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