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CALL FOR PAPERS

NPC 2015

The 12th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing

http://npc15.cs.umass.edu

September 17-19, 2015 New York, New York

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SPONSOR: IFIP
IN-COOPERATION: ACM SIGMICRO
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NPC'2015 provides a forum for bold and innovative ideas.
Big Data, Internet of Things, Smartphones, Youtube, Globally
Distributed Databases, Social Networks and more are driving
network and parallel computing in new directions. Security
and privacy have new importance after break-ins at major retailers
and banks, Stuxnet, and the revelations of Edward Snowden.
What are the implications for network and parallel computing?

NPC especially seeks early stage work with the potential for major
changes in network and parallel computing. Although quantitative
assessment is valuable, and NPC welcomes such papers, NPC places yet
more value on bold ideas, even if all of the details and corner cases
are not yet resolved, or the ideas fully implemented.

NPC 2015 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas,
including but not limited to:

o In-Memory computing
o Applications of parallel and distributed computing.
o Systems, networks, and architectures for high end computing.
o Parallel and multi-core issues and opportunities.
o Big data intelligence.
o Virtualization of machines, networks, and storage.
o Programming languages and environments.
o I/O, file systems, and data management.
o Resource management, scheduling, and load-balancing.
o Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction.
o Fault tolerance, reliability and availability.

NPC is in its 12th year and previous conferences have attracted
high quality papers and wide international participation.

As in previous years, we will publish top papers from NPC 2015 in a special
issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming, and proceedings
will be published as part of Springer LNCS. Additional details are on the
NPC'2015 website above.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submissions Due (extended) March 9, 2015 -) MARCH 30, 2015
Results notification May 20, 2015
Camera-ready version due June 10, 2015
Poster submissions due June 1, 2015
Poster Notification June 20, 2015

NPC'2015 Conference in New York Sept 17-19, 2015

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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Erik Altman, IBM
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Viji Srinivasan, IBM TJ. Watson Research Center
Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
Abdullah Muzahid, University of Texas, San Antonio

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS
Martha Kim, Columbia University
Zehra Sura, IBM

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Wonsun Ahn, University of Pittsburgh (Americas)
Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua Univ (Asia)
Christoph Kessler, Linkoping Univ (Europe)

REGISTRATION CHAIR
Ioana Baldini, IBM

WEB CHAIR
Charlie Curtsinger, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Zhen Fang, AMD - In Memoriam

Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
Mehmet Balman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy
Jun Chen, IAPACM, China
Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University
Yifeng Cui, University of California, San Diego
Parijat Dubey, IBM
Xiaobing Feng, ICT, CAS
Junli Gu, AMD
Haiwu He, CNNIC, China
Shadi Ibrahim, INRIA
Dejun Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Kaeli, Northeastern University
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France
Jian Li, Huawei
Kenli Li, Hunan University, China
Zhiyuan Li, Purdue University
Xiaofei Liao, HUST, China
Kai Lu, NUDT, China
Xiaoyi Lu, Ohio State University
Yutong Lu, NUDT, China
Yingwei Luo, Peking University
Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM
Serge Petiton, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
Apan Qasem, Texas State University
Guangzhi Qu, Oakland University
Xuanhua Shi, HUST, China
Gaurav Singh, CSIRO, Australia
Peter Sweeney, IBM
Marco Vanneschi, University of Pisa
Clark Verbrugge, McGill University
Long Wang, SCCAS, China
Ren Wu, AMD
Limin Xiao, Beihang University, China
Shengen Yan, Baidu, IDL
Liang Yuan, ICT, CAS
Linbo Zhang, LSEC, CAS
Xianyi Zhang, IOS, CAS
Huiyang Zhou, North Carolina State University

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ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Ruay-Shiung Chang, Taiwan Hospitality & Tourism Univ
Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Timothy K. Shih, National Central University, Taiwan
Pen-Chung Yew, University of Minnesota, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE

Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing, USA (Chair)
Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Science & Technology, China
Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA
Jack Dongarra, Univ of Tennessee, USA
Guangrong Gao, Univ of Delaware, USA
Daniel Reed, University of Iowa, USA
Zhiwei Xu, Institute of Computing Technology, China
Yoichi Muraoka, Waseda University, Japan
Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA
Guojie Li, Institute of Computing Technology, China
Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
Tony Hey, Microsoft, USA
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