Call for Paper Conference

http://regulus.pcs.usp.br/sbac2009/

SBAC-PAD is an annual international conference series, the first of which was held in 1987. Each conference has traditionally presented new developments in high-performance computing, as well as the latest trends in computer architecture. The conference has strong international participation, with submissions from more than a dozen countries, and is competitive. In 2009, the symposium will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. SBAC-PAD 2009 is sponsored by the SBC (Brazilian Computer Society), the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing), and the IEEE Computer Society through the Technical Committees on Computer Architecture (TCCA - pending) and Scalable Computing (TCSC - pending).

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, and applications. Specifically, topics of interest include:

Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture Operating systems and virtualization Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications Real-world applications and case studies
Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis Modeling and simulation methodology
Application-specific systems Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer systems Reconfigurable and fault-tolerant systems Embedded and pervasive systems Power and energy-efficient systems

We also seek to provide a forum for the early dissemination of original contributions on emerging topics, such as programming systems and tools for many-core processors, management software for solid-state storage systems, all aspects of game consoles, and data-center-scale computing. Submissions on new topics will be reviewed with the understanding that they are likely to contain more limited quantitative evaluations than those on established topics.

Traditionally, the best papers of the conference are published in an international journal. In recent years, the journal has been the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). We expect the same to happen this year.

Submission
The papers must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE formatting guidelines.

Important dates
Paper registration and abstract submission: May 15, 2009
Paper submission: May 22, 2009 (extended from May 15)
Author notification: July 6, 2009
Camera-ready version: July 31, 2009

General Chair
Edson Midorikawa (Univ. de Sao Paulo - Brazil)

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Ricardo Bianchini (Rutgers University - USA)
Wagner Meira Jr. (Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil)

Program Committee
Computer architecture track
Vice-chair: David Brooks (Harvard)

Claudio L. Amorim (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Nader Bagherzadeh (University of California at Irvine)
Mauricio Breternitz Jr (Intel)
Patrick Crowley (Washington University)
Cesar De Rose (PUC Rio Grande do Sul)
Alberto Ferreira De Souza (Federal University of Espirito Santo)
Jean-Luc Gaudiot (University of California at Irvine)
Timothy Jones (University of Edinburgh)
David Kaeli (Northeastern University)
Jose Moreira (IBM Research)
Philippe Navaux (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Yale Patt (University of Texas at Austin)
Gabriel P. Silva (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Siang Wun Song (University of Sao Paulo)
Radu Teodorescu (Ohio State University)
Jun Yang (University of Pittsburgh)

Applications and algorithms track
Vice-chair: David Bader (Georgia Tech)

Guojing Cong (IBM Research)
Alvaro Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee)
Lucia Drummond (Fluminense Federal University)
Zhihui Du (Tsinghua University)
Rafael Lins (Federal University of Pernambuco)
Kamesh Madduri (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Greg Malewicz (Google)
Osni Marques (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Manish Parashar (Rutgers University)
Jason Riedy (University of California at Berkeley)
Jose Hiroki Saito (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
Olaf Schenk (University of Basel)
Siang Wun Song (University of Sao Paulo)
Denis Trystram (Grenoble University and INRIA)

Systems software track
Vice-chair: Dilma da Silva (IBM Watson)

Dorian Arnold (University of New Mexico)
Luiz DeRose (Cray)
Renato Figueiredo (University of Florida)
Alfredo Goldman (University of Sao Paulo)
Laxmikant Kale (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Ron Minnich (Sandia National Laboratory)
Jairo Panetta (INPE/CPTEC)
Lawrence Rauchwerger (Texas A&M)
Liria Sato (University of Sao Paulo)
Alan Sussman (University of Maryland)
Dan Tsafrir (IBM Research)
Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
Erez Zadok (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Networking and distributed systems track
Vice-chair: Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue)

Jussara Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Marinho Pilla Barcellos (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Francisco Brasileiro (Federal University of Campina Grande)
Ali R. Butt (Virginia Tech)
Ronaldo Alves Ferreira (Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul)
Jose Fortes (University of Florida)
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Chuanxiong Guo (Microsoft Research)
Jia Wang (AT&T Research)