PDP2019: Euromicro Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing 2019 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione - Università di Pavia Pavia, Italy, February 13-15, 2019

Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone impressive changes over recent years. New architectures, advanced programming models, improved efficiency and novel application domains have rapidly become the central focus of this discipline. 

These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of parallel and distributed computational paradigms with other rapidly evolving technologies in different disciplines. It is of paramount importance to review and assess these new developments in relation with the recent research achievements in the different areas of parallel and distributed computing, considering both the industrial and scientific point of view.

PDP 2019 will provide a forum for the discusssion of these and other issues through original research presentations and will facilitate the exchange of knowledge and new ideas at the highest technical and applicative level. 

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track
through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2019). The possibility to submit a paper to a special session will appear soon.

Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review".

List of Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

    - Parallel Computing: massively parallel machines; embedded parallel and distributed systems; multi- and many-core systems; GPU and FPGA based parallel systems; parallel I/O; memory organisation.
    
    - Distributed and Network-based Computing: Cluster, Grid, Web and Cloud computing; mobile computing; interconnection networks.

    - Big Data: large scale data processing; distributed databases and archives; large scale data management; metadata; data intensive applications.

    - Models and Tools: programming languages and environments; runtime support systems; performance prediction and analysis; simulation of parallel and distributed systems.

    - Systems and Architectures: novel system architectures; high data throughput architectures; service-oriented architectures; heterogeneous systems; shared-memory and message-passing systems; middleware and distributed operating systems; dependability and survivability; resource management.

    - Advanced Algorithms and Applications: distributed algorithms; multi-disciplinary applications; computations over irregular domains; numerical applications with multi-level parallelism; real-time distributed applications.

In addition, special sessions will address upcoming novel topics:

    - GPU computing and Many Integrated Core Computing
    - Advances in High-Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
    - Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing
    - Energy Efficient Management of Parallel Systems, Platforms, and Computations
    - Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications
    - High Performance Computing in Modeling and Simulation
    - On-chip parallel and network-based systems
    - Storage architectures and Data Transfer systems for BigData and Exascale Computing
    - High Performance Computing for Neuroscience
    - Parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions in Systems Biology
    - Parallel Numerical Methods and Libraries for Heterogeneous Multi/Manycores

Committees

Steering Committee

• Marco Aldinucci, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, IT
• Marco Danelutto, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, IT
• Massimo Torquati, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, IT
• Max Conway, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
• Filippo Spiga, High Performance Computing Service, University of Cambridge, UK
• Gabriele Mencagli, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, IT

Conference Chairs

• Francesco Leporati, University of Pavia, francesco.leporati@unipv.it
• Gianni Danese, University of Pavia, gianni.danese@unipv.it
• Ivan Merelli, Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, CNR, ivan.merelli@itb.cnr.it

Publication

Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge.

Venue

The conference will be held in Pavia, Italy, on February 13-15 2019

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to francesco.leporati@unipv.it