[TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: HPC Symposium 2009 (Mar del Plata, Argentina)

[Ricardo Medel]

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                                    Call for Papers
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           High-Performance Computing Symposium 2009 (HPC2009)

                                Mar del Plata, Argentina
                                    August 26-27, 2009

                                    held as part of the
              38th JAIIO – Argentine Multiconference on Informatics
                                Mar del Plata, Argentina
                                   August 24-28, 2009
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Overview
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Building on the great success of the first HPC symposium in 2008, this year's
conference aims to bring together researchers, developers, and users of HPC to
discuss new ideas, experiences, and problems.

HPC2009 will be part of the 38th Argentine Conference on Computer
Science (38 JAIIO),
the international conference of the Argentine Society for Computer
Science (SADIO),
to be held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on August 2009.

The use and development of High-Performance Computing (HPC) in Latin America is
steadily growing. New challenges come from the new capabilities
provided by clusters,
grids, and distributed systems for HPC, promoting research and
innovation in this area.

The main goal of HPC2009 is to provide a regional forum fostering the
growth of the
HPC community in Latin America through the exchange and dissemination
of new ideas,
techniques, and research in HPC.

As in its first edition, the symposium will feature invited talks from
academy and
industry, tutorials, short- and full-paper sessions presenting both
mature work and new
ideas in research and industrial applications.

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

* Distributed and Grid Computing
* Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
* High Performance Applications
* High Performance Software Tools
* Virtualization in High Performance Computing
* Visualization and Data Management
* Cloud Computing
* Tools and Environments for High Performance System Engineering
* Component Technologies for High Performance Computing
* Parallelism and Data Sharing on Multi-core Architectures
* Graphics Processing Units in High Performance Computing
* Country-wide Grid Initiatives

Instructions for Authors
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Submissions of short- and full-papers must be written in English, and
prepared according to Springer's LNCS style (guidelines are available
at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.
Submissions will be handled electronically.

The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be
presented at the symposium. At least one author of each accepted paper
must be duly registered for the symposium in order for the paper to be
scheduled in the papers session and to appear in the Symposium and
38 JAIIO proceedings.

Regular full-length papers
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Full papers must not exceed 16 pages, including name, affiliation and
address of the author(s), figures, tables, and references, and an abstract
of no more than 200 words. All full paper submissions will be carefully
reviewed by at least two experts and returned to the author(s) with
comments to ensure the high quality of accepted papers. Full papers
accepted for the program will appear in the proceedings.

Short papers/Extended abstracts
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Authors are invited to submit short papers (also called Extended
Abstracts) for results that are too late to be submitted as regular
full-length papers. Short papers must not exceed 4 pages. Short
papers accepted for the program will appear in the proceedings (in
short form - not expanded to full papers - and with Extended Abstract
in the title) and be presented orally during the symposium (in suitably
shorter speaking slots) as a regular part of the program.

Symposium Information
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Up-to-date information about the program and the symposium
organization can be found at http://hpc2009.hpclatam.org

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2009
Camera-ready papers due: July 13, 2009

Venue Information
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Mar del Plata is a wonderful place:

Information in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_del_Plata
Mar del Plata website (in Spanish): http://www.turismomardelplata.gov.ar/

Program Committee
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Chairs:

Ricardo Medel, Intel de Argentina
Esteban Mocskos, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Committee Members:

Roberto Bevilacqua, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica,
                             Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad
Nacional de San Martin
Gerson Geraldo Cavalheiro, Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Miguel Angel Cavaliere, Tenaris Siderca and Universidad de Buenos Aires
Alvaro Coutinho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Adrián Cristal, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Diego Crupnicoff, Mellanox Technologies
Carlos Garcia Garino, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Gonzalo Hernandez Oliva, Universidad de Chile
Mariano Camilo Gonzalez Lebrero, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Dan Hirsch, Intel de Argentina
Marcos Martins, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.
Patricia Paredes, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Marcela Printista, Universidad Nacional de San Luis
Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University
Mario Storti, Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Patricia Tissera, IAFE - Universidad de Buenos Aires
Mariano Vazquez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Contact Information
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hpc2009 (at) hpclatam.org