Call for Papers
PPoPP is a forum for leading work on all aspects of parallel programming, including foundational results, techniques, tools, and practical experience. In the context of the symposium, "parallel programming" is construed to encompass work on concurrent, multithreaded, multicore, accelerated, multiprocessor, and tightly-clustered systems. Given the rise of multicore processors, PPoPP is particularly interested in work that seeks to transition parallel programming into the computing mainstream.
Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Parallel programming theory and models
- Formal analysis and verification
- Parallel programming languages
- Compilers and runtime systems
- Task-parallel libraries
- Parallel application frameworks
- Middleware for parallel systems
- Automatic parallelization
- Performance analysis, debugging and optimization
- Development, analysis, or management tools
- Parallel algorithms
- Parallel applications
- Concurrent data structures
- Synchronization and concurrency control
- Transactional memory
- Software engineering for parallel programs
- Fault tolerance for parallel systems
- Software techniques for accelerators (including GPGPUs)
Papers should report on original research relevant to parallel programming, and should contain enough background material to make them accessible to the entire parallel programming research community. Papers describing experiences should indicate how they illustrate general principles; papers about parallel programming foundations should indicate how they relate to practice. Poster submissions should meet similar criteria for originality and relevance, but may present emerging ideas or results that are not yet sufficiently developed for a full paper.
All submissions must be made electronically through the conference web site. Abstracts must include contact information, the full list of authors and their affiliations, and a description (100-400 words) of the anticipated content of the paper. Full paper submissions must be in PDF formatted for US lettersize paper. They must not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive) in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number). Templates for ACM format are available for Word Perfect, Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm (use the 9 pt template). Over-length submissions will be summarily discarded by the Program Chair. Submissions will be judged on relevance, originality, significance, clarity, and correctness.
Paper submission is double-blind to reduce reviewer bias against or for authors or institutions. Thus, the submissions cannot include author names or institutions or hints based on references to prior work. If you are extending your own work, you need to reference and discuss the past work in third person, as if you were extending someone else's research. We realize in doing this that for some papers it will still be obvious who the authors are. In this case, the submission will not be penalized as long a concerted effort was made to follow these guidelines. Authors must identify any conflicts-of-interest with PC member and external members of the community, as defined by this policy.
Poster submissions must conform to the same format restrictions, but may not exceed 2 pages in length. Paper submissions that are not accepted for regular presentations will automatically be considered for posters; authors who do not want their paper considered for the poster session should indicate this in their abstract submission. Two-page summaries of posters will be included in the conference proceedings.
The proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted papers and posters will be required to sign the ACM copyright form. Instructions for preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed to authors of accepted papers.
Important Dates
| Abstract Submission: | |
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| Full Paper Submission: | |
| Poster Submission: | |
| Rebuttal Period: | September 9–11, 2009 |
| Notification of Acceptance: | September 18, 2009 |
| PPoPP 2010 Conference: | January 9–14, 2010 |
Program Committee
- Mary Hall, University of Utah (Program Chair)
- Sanjeev Aggarwal, IIT Kanpur
- Francois Bodin, CAPS and Universite de Rennes
- Brad Chamberlain, Cray
- Barbara Chapman, University of Houston
- Guang Gao, University of Delaware
- Ananth Grama, Purdue University
- Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich
- Tim Harris, Microsoft Research
- Jeff Hollingsworth, University of Maryland
- Richard Johnson, NVIDIA
- Milind Kulkarni, University of Texas
- Jose Moreira, IBM
- Eliot Moss, UMass
- Arch Robison, Intel
- P. Sadayappan, Ohio State University
- Marc Snir, UIUC
- Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo
- Rich Vuduc, Georgia Tech
- Peng Wu, IBM
