December 31, 2011 Release
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IPDPS 2012
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26th IEEE INTERNATIONAL PARALLEL &
DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYMPOSIUM
Regal Shanghai East Asia Hotel
Shanghai, China
21 May - 25 May 2012
www.ipdps.org

UPDATES & ALERTS
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1. REGISTRATION OPEN
Advance Deadline March 27, 2012
2. PhD FORUM DUE DATE EXTENDED
Submissions now due January 20, 2012

3. WORKSHOPS DUE DATES EXTENED
Deadlines for most workshops are now in January 2012.
See list of workshops with due dates below.

4. WORKSHOPS & FORUM CAMERA READY
Due date extended to February 29, 2012
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IPDPS 2012
PhD FORUM CALL FOR POSTERS**
To apply for participation in the IPDPS 2012 PhD Forum, students must submit a summary of their PhD research or dissertation proposal prior to January 20, 2012. Those selected to present a poster may also describe their dissertation proposal and preliminary results in a short paper, which will be published with the proceedings of the IPDPS Workshops. These proceedings are part of the IEEE Digital Library and will be EI indexed.

**See details & Chinese version at http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2012/2012_phd_forum.html
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IPDPS 2012
WORKSHOPS CALL FOR PAPERS**
Most workshops now have due date for submissions in January 2012. The 24 workshops planned for IPDPS 2012 in Shanghai are listed below. Each has its own requirements and due date for submissions.

**The Webpage of each workshop is linked from the IPDPS Website at:
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2012/2012_workshops.html

WORKSHOP--(SUBMISSION DUE DATE)
NAME/DESCRIPTION
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HCW--(7 JAN 12)
Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop
RAW--(5 JAN 12)
Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
HIPS--(8 JAN 12)
High-Level Parallel Programming Models & Supportive Environments
NIDISC--(17 DEC 11)
Nature Inspired Distributed Computing
HiCOMB--(5 JAN 12)
High Performance Computational Biology
APDCM--(7 JAN 12)
Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Models
CASS--(2 JAN 12)
Communication Architecture for Scalable Systems
HPPAC--(13 JAN 12)
High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing
HPGC--(6 JAN 12)
High-Performance Grid and Cloud Computing Workshop
SMTPS--(6 JAN 12)
System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services
EduPar--(10 JAN12)
NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education
PDSEC--(31 DEC 11)
Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing
DPDNS--(8 JAN 12)
Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems
MTAAP--(9 JAN 12)
Multi-Threaded Architectures and Applications
LSPP--(23 DEC 11)
Large-Scale Parallel Processing
PCO--(13 JAN 12)
Parallel Computing and Optimization
ASHES--(19 DEC 11)
Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems
ParLearning--(18 JAN 12)
Parallel and Distributed Computing for Machine Learning & Inference Problems
HPDIC--(8 JAN 12)
High Performance Data Intensive Computing
CloudFlow--(9 JAN 12)
Workflow Models, Systems, Services and Applications in the Cloud
JSSPP--(17 FEB 12)
Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
LSDSS--(8 JAN 12)
Large Scale Distributed Service-oriented Systems
PLC--(11 JAN 12)
Multicore and GPU Programming Models, Languages and Compilers
STDN--(6 JAN 12)
Security and Trust of Distributed Networking Systems
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The above list was current as of December 31, 2011. For updates and any
changes in due dates, check at the IPDPS 2012 Workshops Webpage:
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2012/2012_workshops.html
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IPDPS 2012 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Ohio State University, USA

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
Xin Yuan, Florida State University, USA

PhD FORUM CO-CHAIRS
Luc Bougé, ENS Cachan, France
Bo Hong, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

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2012 LOCATION
IPDPS travels to Shanghai in 2012. Our hosts from Shanghai Jiao Tong University have been working with us to prepare for an event that offers our rich program of workshops, a PhD Forum, and the technical program of contributed papers, invited speakers, and tutorials. In 2012, it will be a very special opportunity for attendees and their families to visit Shanghai and explore other parts of China. Join us at the Regal Shanghai East Asia Hotel, which offers full amenities and well-appointed meeting rooms. For more information and regular updates visit IPDPS Web at www.ipdps.org.
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Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing

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*Special Notice Re IEEE-DCOSS 2012
IPDPS participants may be interested to learn that three days before IPDPS 2012 in Shanghai, the 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '12) will take place in Hangzhou, China from Friday, May 18th through Sunday, May 20th. DCOSS is also sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. For details, see http://www.dcoss.org/index.php.