PACT-2012 Minneapolis, MN, USA September 19-23, 2012

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PACT-2012 will take place at the Radisson Plaza Hotel, in the heart of downtown Minneapolis, MN, within walking distance to downtown attractions and restaurants.

Here are some photos of the event.

Workshops

The program of the workshops is available HERE.

1. WSRAS 2012: First International Workshop on Secure and Resilient Architectures and Systems
   Organizers: Ram Krishnan (Univ. of Texas at San Antonio), Dhireesha Kudithipudi (Rochester Institute of Technology), Eugene John (Univ. of Texas at San Antonio)

2. DFM 2012: Data-Flow Execution Models for Extreme Scale Computing
   Steering Committee: Skevos Evripidou (Chair - Univ. of Cyprus), Ian Watson (Univ. of Manchester), Guang Gao (Univ. of Delaware), Jean-Luc Gaudiot (Univ. of California at Irvine), Vivek Sarkar (Rice Univ.), Pedro Trancoso (Publicity Chair - Univ. of Cyprus), Costas Kyriacou (Proceedings Chair - Frederic Univ.)

3. First Workshop on Architectures for Data Intensive Computing (ADC-1)
   Organizers: Guru Venkataramani (George Washington Univ.), H. Howie Huang (George Washington Univ.)

PACT 2012: Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
21st International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Sept. 19-23, 2012, Minneapolis, MN
http://pactconf.org

The 21st International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT) is seeking proposals for workshops and tutorials to accompany the conference.  Workshops and tutorials will be held on Wednesday, September 19 and Sunday, September 23, and may be a half day or a full day in length. We encourage members of the community to consider submitting proposals for workshops and tutorials that bring together researchers and practitioners working on research topics of interest to the PACT community. Prospective workshop and tutorial organizers are invited to submit proposals in pdf of no more than one page to the workshop chair, Thomas Wenisch < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > and tutorials chair, John Cavazos < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >.

Submission information

All proposals must provide the following information:

• Workshop or tutorial name along with a brief 150 to 200-word abstract describing the event suitable for the conference web site.
• If applicable, provide a description of past versions of the activity, including dates, organizers, submission and acceptance counts, attendance, and information with which conference the workshop/tutorial was co-located.
• Brief rationale for the event and for co-locating with PACT.
• Names and affiliations of main organizers and, where relevant, tentative composition of the committees (as complete as possible).
• Event format, i.e., length of event (half-day or full-day), expected number of presented papers, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, number of days, etc.
• Expected number of submissions and participants.
• For workshops: a draft Call For Papers (CFP), as complete as possible.
• For workshops: submission/reviewing deadlines (internal and external).

Proposals should be emailed to the workshop chair, Thomas Wenisch < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > or the tutorials chair, John Cavazos < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >.

Important dates

Proposals due: April 9, 2012
Acceptance notification: April 23, 2012