Conferences on High Performance Computing and Parallel Programming

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.

Conference	Name	Category	Publication	Topics	Personal Impressions	Next Conference	Dead Line	Participants
​SC	SuperComputing Conference	I 3.37	-	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	Hamburg, Jun. 17-21		Jan. 22	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. 25-29, 2012	-	UFO Framework (best fit)
​Euro-Par	European Conference on Parallel Computing	I 3.33	ISY (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
-	Rhodes, Aug. 27-31, 2012	Mar. 2	UFO Framework, Optimizations.
​ICPADS	IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel and Distributed Systems	?	Selected papers will be recommended by the program committee to a number of international journals	Parallel and Distributed Applications and Algorithms, Web-Based Computing	-	Dec. 7-9, 2011	-	UFO Framework, Optimizations
​HPDC	ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing	?	?	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
​IPDPS	IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium	?	?	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. Papers focusing on applications using novel commercial or research architectures, or discussing scalability toward the exascale level are encouraged.	Shanghai, May 21-25,2012		-	UFO
​SIGGRAPH	SIGGRAPH Conference	1	?	Computer graphics and interactive techniques	Los Angeles, Aug. 5-9		Jan. 17
​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	Berkeley,Jun 11-15, 2012	Mar. 21	UFO Framework, GPU Computing, UFO Camera

Conferences on Web Technologies

Conference	Name	Category	Publication	Topics	Personal Impressions	Next Conference	Dead Line	Participants
​WISE	Web Information Systems Engineering	2	?	Web Technologies & Applications: Rich UI, Visualization, Data Retrieval	Oct. 12-14, 2011		-	ADEI (best fit)
​WWW	WWW Conference	1	?	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	1	?	Technologies and Applications of Information Systems, particularly: Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources. The 2012 conference, however, focuses on IS for Service Economy	Orlando, Dec. 16-19, 2012		May 3	ADEI