CALL FOR PAPERS 

       23rd International Conference on Supercomputing 

               http://www.ics-conference.org 

                      June 8-12, 2009 

               IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 
                Metro New York City Area, USA 

                  Sponsored by ACM/SIGARCH 


ICS is the premier international forum for the presentation of 
research results in high-performance computing systems.  Next year the 
conference will be held at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 
Yorktown Heights, NY.  The Center is located in a scenic area of State 
of New York and is within easy reach of New York City. 

Papers are solicited on all aspects of research, development, and 
application of high-performance experimental and commercial systems, 
including: 

* Computationally challenging scientific and commercial applications; 
Application studies and experiences: porting and tuning for 
performance and scalability 

* Architecture and hardware aspects: high-performance and power-aware 
microarchitectures, multithreading, multicore and multiprocessor 
systems optimization to exploit different levels of parallelism, 
interconnection networks, memory organization and parallel storage 
and I/O 

* High-performance computational and programming models; new languages 
and middleware for high performance computing; autotuners and 
function-specific code generators 

* Hardware and software aspects of computational accelerators for 
supercomputing, such as Cell, GPGPUs, and FPGAs 

* Software aspects: programming models, restructuring and optimizing 
compilers and runtime systems, kernel and application development 
and performance tuning tools, operating systems 

* Novel infrastructures for Internet, Grid and Cloud computing; 
Autonomic components at all levels 

* Performance evaluation studies and theoretical underpinnings of any 
of the above topics 

* Large scale installations in the Petaflop era: design, scaling, power, 
and reliability, including case studies and experience reports 


Papers should not exceed 6,000 words, and should be submitted 
electronically, in PDF format using the ICS'09 submission web 
site. Submissions should be blind.  The review process will include a 
rebuttal period. Please refer to the ICS09 web site for detailed 
instructions. 

Workshop and tutorial proposals are also be solicited and due by 
January 15, 2009.  For further information and future updates, refer 
to the ICS'09 web site at http://www.ics-conference.org or contact the 
General or Program Chairs. 

Important Dates 
Abstract  submission:  January 12, 2009 
Paper submission:      January 19, 2009 
Author notification:   March 23, 2009 
Final papers:          April 16, 2009 


GENERAL CO-CHAIRS 
Michael Gschwind, IBM TJ Watson 
Alex Nicolau, UC Irvine 

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS 
Valentina Salapura, IBM TJ Watson 
Jos Moreira, IBM TJ Watson 

FINANCE CHAIR 
Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech 

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR 
Pin Zhou, IBM Almaden 

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS 
Franz Franchetti, CMU 
Hironori Nakajo, Tokyo U of A&T 
Nacho Navarro, UPC 

WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS 
Gabriel Silberman, CA Labs 
Mohamed Zahran, CUNY 

WEB & SUBMISSIONS CO-CHAIRS 
Eduard Ayguade, BSC & UPC 
Alex Ramirez, BSC & UPC 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Eduard Ayguade, BSC & UPC 
Carl Beckmann, Intel 
Gianfranco Bilardi, UPadova 
Greg Byrd, NCSU 
Doug Burger, Microsoft 
Jose-Maria Cela, BSC 
Marcelo Cintra, University of Edinburgh 
I-Hsin Chung, IBM 
Chita Das, PSU 
Luiz DeRose, Cray 
Bronis De Supinski, LLNL 
Jack Dongarra, UTenn/ORNL 
Maria Eleftheriou, IBM 
Franz Franchetti, CMU 
Georgi Gaydadiejev, TU Delft 
Maya Gokhale, LLNL 
Mohammad Haghighat, Intel 
Adolfy Hoisie, LANL 
Kazuki Joe, Nara U 
David Kaeli, Northeastern U 
Darren Kerbyson, LANL 
Mike Kistler, IBM Research 
Jens Knoop, TU Wien 
Fadi Kurdahi, UCI 
Hsien-hsin Lee, Georgia Tech 
Jaejin Lee, Seoul National U 
Gabriel Loh, Georgia Tech 
Milo Martin, UPenn 
Sally McKee, Chalmers 
Sam Midkiff, Purdue 
Edson Midorikawa, University of Sao Paulo 
Vijay Naik, IBM Research 
Toshio Nakatani, IBM Tokyo Research Lab 
Dimitris Nikolopoulos, VT 
Lenny Oliker, LBL 
Yale Patt, UT Austin 
Keshav Pingali, UT Austin 
Milos Prvulovic, Georgia Tech 
Alex Ramirez, UPC 
Amir Roth, UPenn 
Larry Rudolph, MIT 
Martin Schulz, LLNL 
Karin Strauss, AMD 
Mateo Valero, BSC 
Thomas Wenisch, Michigan 
Hans Zima, JPL 

For more information, please visit the conference web site at 
http://www.ics-conference.org