**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****

                The 21st International ACM Symposium on 
         High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing 
                            (HPDC'12)

          Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands

                         June 18-22, 2012

                    http://www.hpdc.org/2012


The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) 
is the premier annual conference on the design, the implementation, the evaluation, and 
the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. HPDC'12 will take place 
in Delft, the Netherlands, a historical, picturesque city that is less than one hour away 
from Amsterdam-Schiphol airport. The conference will be held on June 20-22 (Wednesday to 
Friday), with affiliated workshops taking place on June 18-19 (Monday and Tuesday).


**** SUBMISSION DEADLINES ****
Abstracts:    16 January 2012
Papers:       23 January 2012 (No extensions!)


**** HPDC'12 GENERAL CHAIR ****
Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands


**** HPDC'12 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ****
Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Matei Ripeanu, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada


**** HPDC'12 WORKSHOPS CHAIR ****
Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands


**** SCOPE AND TOPICS ****
Submissions are welcomed on all forms of high-performance parallel and distributed computing, 
including but not limited to clusters, clouds, grids, utility computing, data-intensive 
computing, and massively multicore systems. Submissions that explore solutions to estimate 
and reduce the energy footprint of such systems are particularly encouraged. All papers 
will be evaluated for their originality, potential impact, correctness, quality of 
presentation, appropriate presentation of related work, and relevance to the conference, 
with a strong preference for rigorous results obtained in operational parallel and 
distributed systems.

The topics of interest of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following, 
in the context of high-performance parallel and distributed computing:

   - Systems, networks, and architectures for high-end computing
   - Massively multicore systems
   - Virtualization of machines, networks, and storage
   - Programming languages and environments
   - I/O, storage systems, and data management
   - Resource management, energy and cost minimizations
   - Performance modeling and analysis
   - Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
   - Data-intensive computing
   - Applications of parallel and distributed computing


**** PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ****
Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 12 pages in PDF format, including 
figures and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style and 
submitted via the conference web site. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as 
specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference 
proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A limited number of 
papers will be accepted as posters.

Papers must be self-contained and provide the technical substance required for the program 
committee to evaluate their contributions. Submitted papers must be original work that has 
not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. See the 
ACM Prior Publication Policy for more details.


**** IMPORTANT DATES ****
Abstracts Due:				16 January 2012
Papers Due:				23 January 2012 (No extensions!)
Reviews Released to Authors:		8 March 2012 
Author Rebuttals Due:			12 March 2012
Author Notifications:			19 March 2012
Final Papers Due:			16 April 2012
Conference Dates:			18-22 June 2012