International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing

SBAC-PAD 2020


Computing Systems



SBAC-PAD 2020
32nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture
and High Performance Computing
September 8-11, 2020
Porto, Portugal
sbac2020@dcc.fc.up.pt
SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, 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 at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. More information about the conference can be found at https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/
PAPER SUBMISSION
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 conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, at least one of the authors must register at the full rate and present her/his work.
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 will be done through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin?l=L2mxvfsfRwkFtBUjRlfVPc#
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract deadline: May 15th, 2020
Paper deadline: May 22nd, 2020
Reviewing period: May 24-Jun 21, 2020
Author notification: June 26th, 2020
Camera-ready submission: July 3rd, 2020
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs
Inês Dutra, ines@dcc.fc.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal)
Jorge Barbosa, jbarbosa@fe.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal)
Miguel Areias, miguel-areias@dcc.fc.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal)
Program Co-chairs
Jorge Barbosa (University of Porto, Portugal)
Laurent Lefévre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France)
Lucia Drummond (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
Track Chairs
Computer Architecture
Chair: TBA
Networking and Distributed Systems
Chair: TBA
Parallel Applications and Algorithms
Chair: TBA
Performance Evaluation
Chair: TBA
System Software
Chair: TBA
VENUE
SBAC-PAD 2020 will be hosted by the Dept. of Computer Science (GPS coords
41.152545, -8.640758) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of
Porto (FCUP).
Participants may reserve rooms in several of the nearby Hotels. As the
symposium will be held in the tourist season, the organizers recommend
a timely reservation of rooms.