14th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on
Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009)
February 14-18, 2009, Raleigh, NC

(co-located with HPCA-15)



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):

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.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission:

August 11, 2008 (11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time)

Full Paper Submission:

August 18, 2008 (11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time)
Poster Submission:

August 18, 2008 (11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time; no separate abstract required)

Rebuttal Period:

October 1-3, 2008
Notification of Acceptance:   

October 17, 2008

Information for Authors

All submissions must be made electronically through the PPoPP09 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 letter-size paper. They must not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive) in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page numbers). Over-length submissions will be summarily discarded by the Program Chair. Submissions will be judged on relevance, originality, significance, clarity, and correctness. 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.

Committee Information

General Chair: Daniel Reed, Microsoft Research

Program Chair: Vivek Sarkar, Rice University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nancy M. Amato, Texas A&M University
David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Martin Burtscher, University of Texas at Austin
Calin Cascaval, IBM Research
Matteo Frigo, Cilk Arts
Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
R.Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University
Tim Harris, Microsoft Research
Richard Johnson, NVIDIA
Hironori Kasahara, Waseda University
Chandra Krintz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego
Jan-Willem Maessen, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Larry Rudolph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vivek Sarkar, Rice University
Bill Scherer, Rice University
Tatiana Shpeisman, Intel
Lauren L. Smith, Department of Defense, USA
Ian Watson, University of Manchester



Call for Workshops and Tutorials

PPoPP is seeking proposals for workshops and tutorials to accompany the conference. Workshops and tutorials will be held on Saturday and Sunday, February 14 and 15, 2009 and may be a half day or a full day in length.

The deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals is October 10, 2008. Please submit all proposals through the PPoPP09 web site.

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, multiprocessor, and tightly-clustered systems, but typically not wide-area distribution. 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):

We encourage members of the community to consider submitting proposals for workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners working on research topics of significant current interest, as well as workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners working in particular areas.

Workshop proposals should include:

Tutorial proposals should include:

Committee Information

General Chair: Daniel Reed, Microsoft Research

Program Chair: Vivek Sarkar, Rice University

Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Sanjeev Kumar, Intel

Sponsored by

ACM SIGPLAN