Conferences on High Performance Computing and Parallel Programming

Conference	Name	Category	Publication	Topics	Personal Impressions	Next Conference	Focus	Dead Line	Participants
​SC	SuperComputing Conference	I 3.37	Digital Proceedings Only	GPUs, Clusters, Parallel Algorithms	Dominated by scheduling the big clusters, but has a good session on GPU computing. A lot of HPC vendors are present	Salt Lake City, Nov. 12-15, 2012		Apr. 20	Optimizations
​ISC	International SuperComputing Conference	I	?	European SC		Leipzig, Jun. 23-26		?	Optimizations
​PPoPP	Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming	I 14.3	The proceedings will be published by ACM Press	All aspects of parallel programming, including foundational and theoretical aspects, techniques, tools, and practical experiences. PPoPP is particularly interested in work that addresses workloads, techniques and tools that attempt to improve the productivity of parallel programming, and work towards improved synergy with such emerging architectures. Topics include: Parallel programming theory and models; Middleware for parallel systems; Parallel application frameworks; Performance analysis, debugging and optimization; Software engineering for parallel programs; Parallelism in non-scientific workloads: web servers, search, analytics.	-	Feb. 15-19 2014		Sep. 8	UFO Framework (best fit)
​Euro-Par	European Conference on Parallel Computing	I 3.33	ISY (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)	All aspects of parallel and distributed computing for engineers and scientists. Euro-Par covers a wide spectrum of topics from algorithms and theory to software technology and hardware-related issues, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice.	-	Rhodes, Aug. 27-31, 2012		Mar. 2	UFO Framework, Optimizations.
​ICPADS	IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel and Distributed Systems	II 2.0	Selected papers will be recommended by the program committee to a number of international journals	Parallel and Distributed Applications and Algorithms; Real-time and multimedia systems; Web-Based Computing	-	Dec. 7-9, 2011		-	UFO Camera & Framework (best fit), Optimizations
​IPDPS	IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium	I	Digital Proceedings Only	Parallel and distributed algorithms, Hardware & Software for distributed systems, applications of parallel and distributed computing including web applications, peer-to-peer computing, cloud and grid computing, scientific applications, and mobile computing.		Phoenix, May 19-23,2014	Papers focusing on applications using novel commercial or research architectures, or discussing scalability toward the exascale level are encouraged.	Oct. 11	UFO
​ICPP	International Conference on Parallel Processing	I 6.6	?	Forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing, i.e. Algorithms Design and Parallelization; Performance and Modeling.		Pittsburgh, Sep. 10-13, 2012	Focus for 2012 is Disruptive Technologies (Multicore/Manycore?, Accelerators, Clouds) and Data intensive computing	Mar. 2	Optimizations
​HPDC	ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing	?	ACM Digital Library	Implementation, the evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing (main focus is infrastructure): I/O, storage systems, and data management; Performance modeling and analysis; Data-intensive computing; applications for parallel and distributed computing		Delfi, Netherlands, Jun. 18-22, 2012		Jan. 16
​SIGGRAPH	SIGGRAPH Conference	I	?	Computer graphics and interactive techniques		Los Angeles, Aug. 5-9		Jan. 17
​GTC	GPU Programming Conference	-	-	GPU Programming Conference organized by NVIDIA		San Jose, May 14-17, 2012		-	UFO Framework, Optimizations

Tomography, Medical Imaging, & Nuclear Science

Conference	Name	Category	Publication	Topics	Personal Impressions	Next Conference	Focus	Dead Line	Participants
​RT	IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference	?	ISY (IEEE TNS)	Targeted at Nuclear & Acceleration Physicists, Emerging Real Time Technologies	Dominated by CERN people talking about their electronics	Nara,May 26-30, 2014		Feb. 17	UFO Framework, GPU Computing, UFO Camera
​Fully3D	Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine	?	Online			Rhode Island, May 31 - Jun 6, 2015			Reconstruction Algorithms, UFO Framework, GPU Computing
​VISIGRAPP	Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging, and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications	?				Lisboa, January 5-8, 2014			Reconstruction Algorithms, GPU Computing
​SPIE	SPIE Medical Imaging	?	?			San Diego, Feb 15-20, 2014		Aug. 12
​NSS/MIC	IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging	?	?			Seattle, Nov 08-15, 2014		?
​ICT	Industrial Computed Tomography	?	?			Wels, Feb 25-28, 2014		?
​Lorentz Center	Advanced X-Ray Tomography: Experiment, Modeling, and Algorithms	?	?			Amsterdam, Feb 10-14, 2014		?

Conferences on Web Technologies

Conference	Name	Category	Publication	Topics	Personal Impressions	Next Conference	Focus	Dead Line	Participants
​WISE	Web Information Systems Engineering	II	?	Web Technologies & Applications: Rich UI, Visualization, Data Retrieval		Oct. 12-14, 2011		-	ADEI (best fit)
​WWW	WWW Conference	I	?	All about the Web: User Interfaces, Smart Devices, Security, Data Mining, Search, Social Networks, Data & Content Management, etc.		Apr. 16-20		-	ADEI
​CHEP	Computations in High Energy Physics	?	Journal of Physics: Conference Series	DAQ, Analysis, & Simulations	Dominated by people from CERN reporting on their DAQ and GRID in general	NY, May 21-25, 2012		-	ADEI, UFO
​ICIS	International Conference on Information Systems	I	?	Technologies and Applications of Information Systems, particularly: Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources.		Orlando, Dec. 16-19, 2012	The 2012 conference, however, focuses on IS for Service Economy	May 3	ADEI

Conferences on Data Management and Visualization

Conference	Name	Category	Publication	Topics	Personal Impressions	Next Conference	Focus	Dead Line	Participants
​IEEE VIS	IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology, IEEE Information Visualization, and IEEE Scientific Visualization	?	?	Visualization		Paris, Nov. 9-14, 2014		Mar. 21, 2014	Database and Visualization related
​UIST	User Interface Software and Technology	?	?	?		Honolulu, Oct. 5-8, 2014		Apr. 16, 2014	Software UI related
​PVIS	IEEE Pacific Visualization	?	?	Visualization		Japan, March. 4-7, 2014		Sept. 2, 2013	Visualization
​ACM SIGGRAPH	Computer Graphics and Interactive techniques	?	?	Graphics and User Experience		Vancouver, Aug. 10-14, 2014		Jan. 20, 2014	Graphics and Visualization related
​LDAV	Large Data Analysis and Visualization	?	?	Data management and visualization		Paris, Nov. 9-10, 2014		May. 14, 2014	Data and Visualization related
​DEXA	Database and Expert Systems	?	?	Database management		Munich, Germany, Sep. 1-5, 2014		March. 21, 2014	Database
​ICDE	International Conference on Data Engineering	?	?	Data management		Helsinki,Finland May 16-20, 2016		October 19, 2015	Database
​VDA	Visualization and Data Analysis	?	?	Data management		?		?	?
​IVAPP	International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications	?	?	Visualization		?		?	?
​VIS	IEEE Information & Scientific Visualization (InfoVis?, SciVis?)	?	?	Visualization		?		?	?