DP 2012 - The 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel,
         Distributed and Network-Based Computing
         http://www.pdp2012.org
         15-17 February 2012,
         Garching near Munich, Germany

		
We invite you to consider submitting papers to the 20th Euromicro
International Conference on Parallel, Distributed,  and  Network-
Based Processing PDP 2012 that will be held at the Leibniz Super-
computing Centre, Garching near Munich, Germany from 15th to 17th
of February, 2012.

Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone
impressive change over recent years. New architectures and appli-
cations  have rapidly become the central focus of the discipline.
These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of paral-
lel  and  distributed  technologies  with  other rapidly evolving
technologies. It is of paramount importance to review and  assess
these   new  developments  in  comparison  with  recent  research
achievements in the well-established areas of parallel  and  dis-
tributed computing, from industry and the scientific community.

The  PDP  2012  aims  to  provide a forum for the presentation of
these and other issues through  original  research  presentations
and  to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and new ideas at the
highest technical level. Topics of interest include, but are  not
restricted to:

- PARALLEL  COMPUTING
- DISTRIBUTED AND NETWORK-BASED COMPUTING
- DATA INTENSIVE COMPUTING
- MODELS AND TOOLS
- SYSTEMS  AND ARCHITECTURES
- ADVANCEdD  ALGORITHMS  AND  APPLICAIONS

Please find more details on our web site www.pdp2012.org.

Special Sessions

The following special sessions will be organized within the  con-
ference:
Cloud  Computing  for  Compute  and  Data  Intensive Applications
(chairs Thierry Delaittre and Sebastien Goasguen)
On-chip Parallel and Network-based Systems
(chairs Hamid Sarbazi-Azad and Nader Bagherzadeh)
Energy-aware Systems
(chairs  Bernd Freisleben  and  Matthias Schmidt)
GPU Computing and Hybrid Computing
(chairs  Didier  El  Baz  and Michael Huebner)
Security in  Networked and Distributed Systems
(chair Igor Kotenko)
Next Generation of Web Computing
(chair Konrad Kloeckner)
Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of  Peer-to-peer  environ-
ments (chairs Julien Bourgeois and Etienne Riviere)
Grid, Parallel and Distributed Bio-informatics Applications
(chairs Daniele D'Agostino and Ivan Merelli)
Cross-Fertilisation of  Parallel  and  Metaheuristics  Techniques
(chair Coromoto Leon)
Parallel  and  distributed  storage systems
(chairs Kathrin Peter and Peter Sobe)


Paper Submission

Papers can be submitted to the conference main track or  to  Spe-
cial  Sessions through the EasyChair conference submission system
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2012 with an  indi-
cation  of the main track or the name of the Special Session. Pa-
pers will undergo a blind peer review process.
Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 5000
words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract. To facili-
tate an anonymous reviewing process, the first page of the  paper
should  contain  only the title and abstract. Moreover, the names
of the authors of the paper must not appear in citations  in  the
reference section.
All  accepted  papers  will  be included in the same volume, pub-
lished by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing  Ser-
vices  (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instruc-
tions will be published after the notification of acceptance.
Authors of accepted  papers  are  expected  to  register  and  to
present the paper at the Workshop.


Important Dates

Papers due:              July 25, 2011
Acceptance notification: October 10, 2011
Camera-ready versions:   November 11, 2011


Program Chairs

Rainer Stotzka,    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Michael Schiffers, LMU of Munich, Germany
Yiannis Cotronis,  University of Athens, Greece