Preliminary Call for Papers

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 applications, as well as the latest trends in computer architecture and parallel and distributed technologies. The conference has strong international participation, with submissions typically coming from over a dozen countries. The selection process is competitive, with acceptance rate below 30% in recent years.

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.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Application-specific systems
• Architecture and Programming Support for Emerging Domains (Big Data, Deep Learning)
• Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis
• Cloud, Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer systems
• Embedded and pervasive systems
• GPUs, FPGAs and other accelerator architectures
• Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming
• Modeling and simulation methodology
• Operating systems and virtualization
• Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications
• Power and energy-efficient systems
• Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture
• Real-world applications and case studies
• Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems

Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the SBAC-PAD 2019 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, one of the authors must register at the full rate. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Paper Submission

Paper submission can be done through EasyChair here.

Important Dates

• Abstract deadline: June 03, 2019 June 17, 2019
• Paper deadline: June 10, 2019 June 24, 2019
• Rebuttal period: July 09-10, 2019 July 23-24, 2019
• Author notification: July 19, 2019 August 02, 2019
• Camera-ready: August 30, 2019

Organizing Committee

General Chair

• Edson Norberto Cáceres (UFMS, Brazil)
• Ricardo Ribeiro dos Santos - Vice General Chair (UFMS, Brazil)

Program Co-chairs

• Eduard Ayguadé (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
• Renato Ferreira (UFMG, Brazil)

Track Chairs

• Track 1 - Computer Architecture: Philippe Navaux (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
• Track 2 - Programming models and runtimes for parallel systems: Antonio Peña (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
• Track 3 - System software for distributed computing: Alan Sussman (University of Maryland)
• Track 4 - Applications and performance evaluation: Ivona Brandic (Vienna University of Technology)