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14th SBAC-PAD 2002 CALL FOR PAPERS

and DEADLINE EXTENSION ANNOUNCEMENT

SBAC-PAD 2002

THE 14TH SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

AND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

http://www.inf.ufes.br/sbac2002

Vitória - Brazil, October 28-30 2002

Submissions due: July 02, 2002

Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE

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SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION:

SBAC-PAD is an international annual conference, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held in Vitória - a tourist island in the southeastern part of Brazil - at the Novotel Accor Vitória.

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts on all aspects of computer architecture and high performance computing. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Application-Specific Architectures - Benchmarking and Measurements - Cache and Memory Architectures - Distributed Systems - Fault-Tolerant Architectures and Systems - Grid Computing - Heterogeneous Computing - High Performance Applications - Languages, Compilers and Tools for Parallel and Distributed Programming - Large Scale Simulations - Load Balancing and Scheduling - Multimedia and High Speed Networks - Network and Cluster Based Computing - Processor Microarchitectures - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - Performance Measurements and Analysis - Reconfigurable Systems

To submit an original research, please register your manuscript, in English, not exceeding 8 pages (double column). Submissions must be in PDF or Postscript format. Please check the following web site for paper submission information: http://www.inf.ufes.br/sbac2002/submission

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IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Paper submission deadline: July 02, 2002 Tutorial Proposals: July 02, 2002 Author Notification: July 30, 2002 Camera Ready Copy: August 13, 2002

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GENERAL INFORMATION:

Promoter/Organizer:

Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC)

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)

General Chair:

Alberto Ferreira De Souza

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES)

Organizing Committee:

Lucia Catabriga (UFES)

Neyval Costa Reis Jr. (UFES)

Andréa Maria Pedrosa Valli (UFES)

Raul Cardoso Lopes (UFES)

Sérgio Antônio A. de Freitas (UFES)

Program Chair:

Claudio L. de Amorim

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Program Committee:

Peter Allan (UK)

José Nelson Amaral (Canada)

Claudio L. Amorim (Brazil)

Nader Bagherzadeh (USA)

Valmir C. Barbosa (Brazil)

Luiz André Barroso (USA)

Eduardo W. Bergamini (Brazil)

Ricardo Bianchini (USA)

Graham F. Carey (USA)

Walfredo C. Cirne (Brazil)

Álvaro L. G. A. Coutinho (Brazil)

Mark Crovella (USA)

Adriano J. O. Cruz (Brazil)

Cesar A. F. De Rose (Brazil)

Alberto F. De Souza (Brazil)

Frank Dehne (Canada)

Jack Dongarra (USA)

Sandhya Dwarkadas (USA)

Edil S. T. Fernandes (Brazil)

Bertil Folliot (France)

José A. B. Fortes (USA)

Felipe M. G. França (Brazil)

Guang R. Gao (USA)

Jean-Luc Gaudiot (USA)

Claudio F. R. Geyer (Brazil)

Claude Girault (France)

Ronaldo A. L. Goncalves (Brazil)

Hans-Ulrich Heiss (Germany)

Liviu Iftode (USA)

Sergio T. Kofuji (Brazil)

Rafael D. Lins (Brazil)

Orlando G. Loques (Brazil)

Evangelos P. Markatos (Greece)

Osni Marques (USA)

Wagner Meira Jr (Brazil)

Alba C. M. A. Melo (Brazil)

Celso L. Mendes (USA)

Tadao Nakamura (Japan)

Philippe O. A. Navaux (Brazil)

Mario Nemirovsky (USA)

David A. Padua (USA)

Jairo Panetta (Brazil)

Ron Perrott (North Ireland)

Brigitte Plateau (France)

José H. Saito (Brazil)

Liria M. Sato (Brazil)

Renato S. Silva (Brazil)

Horst D. Simon (USA)

Siang W. Song (Brazil)

Denis Trystram (France)

Mateo Valero (Spain)

Tutorials Chair:

Jairo Panneta (CPTEC - Brazil)

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