Scope

The main theme of PARA2012 is "the State of the Art in Scientific and Parallel Computing", with a special theme "Towards Exascale". Interesting topics include (but are not restricted to) algorithms, software, tools, environments as well as applications for scientific computing, high-performance computing, grid computing, cloud computing, and interactive visualization.

Important dates and deadlines

• Registration opens December 9, 2011
• Deadline for minisymposium proposals January 31, 2012
• Deadline for extended abstracts February 17, 2012
  
• Notification of acceptance March 15, 2012
• Early-bird fee ends  March 30, 2012
• Registration ends May 31, 2012
• PARA 2012 Tutorials June 10, 2012
  
• PARA 2012 Workshop June 11-13, 2012

• Deadline for proceedings papers October  15, 2012

PARA2012 proceedings

The proceedings of the PARA2012 conference are available at the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Principal members of organizing and steering committees

Per Öster, CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland
Pekka Manninen, CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Jerzy Wasniewski, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark

Venue