HPCS 2010

SciNet is hosting this year's HPCS conference, and we'd like to bring it to the attention of our community. Please take a look at the conference website, and we are sure you won't want to miss this great event. Here is our announcement and call for papers.

Regards,
Daniel

Third and Final Call For Submissions, and Close of Early Registration:
'Data-Intensive Computing' HPCS2010 ( http://www.hpcs2010.org )

HPCS (High Performance Computing Symposium) is Canada's foremost
supercomputing conference, a multidisciplinary conference where
computational researchers from all disciplines in industry and
academia, exchange new tools, techniques and interesting results
in and for high-performance computational research. HPCS2010, the
24th in the series, will take place on June 5-9 in Toronto. Schedule
and Workshop information is available on our website,
http://www.hpcs2010.org .

Our tutorial/workshop program, Jun 5 and 6, includes introductory
sessions -- CUDA for GPU programming; learning parallel programming
with Pilot; the basics of parallel programming with MPI and OpenMP
-- as well as advanced classes in Posix threads, Parallel I/O, and
PGAS programming languages.

Our technical program, June 7-9, includes sessions on

* Industrial use of HPC
- featuring J. Chen (U Calgary) on HPC in the Oil & Gas industry
* Data Intensive Physical Sciences,
- including in high energy physics (B Caron, Triumf)
- and climate science (V. Bilaji, Princeton)
* Data Intensive Life Sciences,
- including epigenomics (A. McLellan, Yeshiva University)
- and neurological imaging (M. Rousseau, McGill),
- and with a round table discussion on privacy issues on cloud
computing in life/medical sciences
* Data Intensive Digital Humanities,
- featuring S. Downie, UIUC;
* and the Road to Exascale, including leading speakers
- from Industry (David Turek, IBM; Eng Lim Goh, SGI),
- the US National Labs (D. Rudish, Sandia)
- and others to be announced shortly.

We are seeking abstracts for posters and oral presentations,
particularly but not exclusively those connecting to our main theme,
`Data Intensive Computing/Data Intensive Research'.

Submissions accepted for oral or poster presentations will be
eligible for the NVIDIA Best Paper Prize, an NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800.
Student submissions will be eligible for the Intel Best Student
Paper Prize, worth $500 CDN.

Submissions for oral presentations are due April 19; submissions
should be of the form of extended abstracts (~500 words) with a
problem description, methods, conclusions (possibly preliminary),
key references, and optionally figures. Submissions will be reviewed
by the sessions organizing committee, and notifications of acceptance
will go out by May 3. The proceedings will be published in a
peer-reviewed, indexed online publication after the conference,
with a deadline for final versions of papers for peer review
approximately a month after the conference.

Submissions for poster presentations are also due on April 19. These
will follow the same procedure as those for papers. Top posters in
various categories will have the option to publish in the proceedings.

To submit an abstract for consideration, register at the conference
website ( http://www.hpcs2010.org ) and then submit a PDF-formatted
extended abstract at http://www.hpcs2010.org/conference/papers .

Please visit http://www.hpcs2010.org/ for more information, up-to-date
news, and information on our exciting lineup of speakers and
workshops. Discounted early registration ends April 24.

We look forward to seeing you in June!
The HPCS2010 Organizing Committee.