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CALL FOR PAPERS

20th High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2012),
part of the
SCS Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'12)
in cooperation with ACM/SIGSIM

March 26--29, 2012
Florida Hotel and Conference Center, Orlando, FL, USA
http://www.ncsu.edu/itd/hpc/hpc2012/hpc2012.html

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due (extended deadline): January 7, 2012
Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2012
Revised manuscript due: February 10, 2012
Symposium: March 26--29, 2012


GENERAL INFORMATION

The 2012 Spring Simulation Multiconference will feature the 20th High
Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2012), devoted to the impact of high
performance computing and communications on computer simulations.

Advances in multicore and many-core architectures, networking, high end
computers, large data stores, and middleware capabilities are ushering in
a new era of high performance parallel and distributed simulations. Along
with these new capabilities come new challenges in computing and system
modeling. The goal of HPC 2012 is to encourage innovation in high performance
computing and communication technologies and to promote synergistic advances
in modeling methodologies and simulation. It will promote the exchange of
ideas and information between universities, industry, and national
laboratories about new developments in system modeling, high performance
computing and communication, and scientific computing and simulation.
Topics of interest include:

o high performance/large scale application case studies,
o GPUs for general purpose computations (GPGPU)
o multicore and many-core computing,
o power aware computing,
o cloud, distributed, and grid computing,
o asynchronous numerical methods and programming,
o hybrid system modeling and simulation,
o large scale visualization and data management,
o tools and environments for coupling parallel codes,
o parallel algorithms and architectures,
o high performance software tools,
o resilience at the simulation level,
o component technologies for high performance computing.


PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 8 pages,
double column format) on topics related to the areas listed above.
Submissions will be evaluated on relevance, technical quality, and
exposition. Papers must not have appeared before (or be pending) in a
journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under
review or submitted to another forum during the HPC 2012 review process.
All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings as regular papers.
Papers should be submitted electronically using the paper submission system
linked from http://www.scs.org/springsim/2012/.

Papers must use SCS format. Formatting instructions are available at
http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/Formatting_Kit.pdf

At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the
symposium and must present the paper at the symposium.


TUTORIALS, PANELS, AND SPECIAL SESSIONS

Proposals for tutorials, panels, and special sessions are welcome; submit
such proposals to the general or program chairs by November 1, 2011.


PUBLICATION

The symposium proceedings will be published in hard copy and on CD-ROM
through SCS and may be in the ACM Digital Library.


BEST PAPER AWARD

At least one paper from each symposium will be chosen for a Best Paper
Award, which will be recognized in an awards ceremony before a plenary
lecture.


FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information please visit the conference website at
http://www.ncsu.edu/itd/hpc/hpc2012/hpc2012.php
or contact the symposium chairs.


SPONSORS

Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) (http://www.scs.org/)
and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (http://www.acm.org/).


SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS

General Chair: Gary Howell, North Carolina State University
(gary_howell@ncsu.edu)

General Vice-Chair: Fang (Cherry) Liu, Ames Laboratory
(fangliu@scl.ameslab.gov)

Program Chair: Steven Seidel, Michigan Technological University
(steve@mtu.edu)

Program Vice Chair: Rhonda Phillips, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
(rhonda.phillips@ll.mit.edu)

Publicity Chair: Karl Rupp, TU Wien
(rupp@iue.tuwien.ac.at)


STEERING COMMITTEE

Marc Baboulin, INRIA and U. Paris Sud
Narsingh Deo, University of Central Florida
Julien Langou, University of Colorado Denver
Beth Plale, Indiana University
William Shoaff, Florida Institute of Technology
Masha Sosonkina, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University
Niraj Srivastava, Raytheon Corporation
Will Thacker, Winthrop University
Layne Watson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Aron Ahmadia, King Abdullah University
Alex Aravind, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Sanjutka Bhowmick, University of Nebraska
Brett Bode, Ames Laboratory
Ali Butt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Bin Cao, Teradata Corporation
Haiyan Cheng, Willamette University
Jing-Ru C. "Ruth" Cheng, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Jose C. Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Nahid Emad, Universite' de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Samantha Foley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gillian Groves, Raytheon Company
Phil Hammonds, ManTech International Corporation
Azzam Haidar, University of Tennessee
Joshua Hursey, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jim Jones, Florida Tech
Michael Mascagni, Florida State University
Gabriel Mateescu, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Germany
John Michalakes, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory
Jose Moreira, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Saeid Nooshabadi, Michigan Technological University
Suely Oliveira, University of Iowa
Thomas C. Oppe, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Christian Perez, INRIA/ENS Lyon, France
Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Jill Reese, Mathworks
Cal Ribbens, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Gudula Ruenger, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany
Alan Stewart, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
William A. Ward, NASA Greenbelt
Robert White, North Carolina State University
Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Qin Xin, Universite' Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Ping Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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