Submission Deadline December 18^th 2006

As part of the Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Models (APDCM), the aim of this special session is to focus on computer systems that can scale to many thousands of processing elements and are used to solve a single problem. The focus is on identifying new and novel ideas rather than proving incremental advances. By concurrently exploring architecture, programming models, algorithms and applications, the session seeks to advance the state-of-the-art of Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) systems.  Following the usual IPDPS practice, all MPP papers will be published in the Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS).

Topics of Interest

The topics of interest to this special session are:

Architectures and Experimental Systems: the use of increased parallelism on a single chip (MPP on a chip), the coordination and communication between massive numbers of processing elements, the use of processors in memory (PIMS), and parallelism in emerging technologies.

Large-scale Computing: the utilization of MPPs for large-scale computing, achieving peta-scale levels of processing, use of heterogeneous processing capabilities.

Parallelism, Programming Models and Algorithms: exploiting parallelism for MPP systems, novel algorithms, empirical and simulation performance evaluation studies of applications, metrics and models to explore MPP systems, improvements in programmability or productivity.

Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be considered.

Submission Guidelines

Papers should not exceed eight single-space pages (including figures, tables and references) using a 12-point on 8½x11-inch pages. Submissions should be made electronically in either PostScript of PDF format to Darren Kerbyson (djk@lanl.gov) to whom informal enquiries can also be made. Please include your contact information with the paper submission. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation and appropriateness for the special session. Submitted papers should not have appeared in, or be under consideration for, any other workshop, conference, or journal.

Note that the deadline for paper submission has been extended to December 18^th 2006