APDCM2019 May 20, 2019, to be held in conjunction with

IPDPS May 20 – 24, 2019, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tentative program is here.

• Best Paper: Hazem A. Abdelhafez, Christopher Zimmer, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai and Matei Ripeanu. AHEAD: A Tool for Projecting Next-Generation Hardware Enhancements on GPU-Accelerated Systems
• Outstanding Paper: Tomas Vyskocil and Hristo Djidjev. Constraints embedding for solving hard optimization problems on quantum annealers

The past twenty years have seen a flurry of activity in the area of parallel and distributed computing. In recent years, novel parallel and distributed computational models have been proposed in the literature, reflecting advances in new computational devices and environments such as optical interconnects, programmable logic arrays, networks of workstations, radio communications, mobile computing, DNA computing, quantum computing, sensor networks etc. It is very encouraging to note that the advent of these new models has lead to significant advances in the resolution of various difficult problems of practical interest.

The main goal of this workshop is to provide a timely forum for the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques and research in the field of the parallel and distributed computational models. The workshop is meant to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing taken in an inclusive, rather than exclusive, sense. We are convinced that the workshop atmosphere will be conducive to open and mutually beneficial exchanges of ideas between the participants.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

Radio communication models, Mobile computing models, Sensor network models, Hardware-specific models, FPGA models, Systolic arrays and cellular automata, Peer-to-peer models, Biologically-based computing models, Quantum models, Reconfigurable models, Optical models, CUDA, OpenCL, GPU computing models, BSP and LogP models, PGAS model, Cloud computing model, Edge/Fog computing model

Geometric and graph algorithms, Combinatorial algorithms, Randomized and approximation techniques, Numerical algorithms, Network algorithms, Localized algorithms, Distributed algorithms, Image processing, High-performance computing, GPU applications, MapReduce

Architectural and implementation issues, Performance analysis and simulation, MPI, Multi-core processors, Programmable logic arrays, GPGPU, Design of network protocols, Embedded systems, Cloud computing, Cluster Computing, Development tools, Fault tolerance, Security Issues, Big data analysis

• Speaker: Professor Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo (University of Brasilia)
• Titie: Parallel Biological Sequence Comparison in Heterogeneous Platforms with Multiple Programming Environments: Strategies and Challenges
• Abstract: Biological Sequence Alignment is a very basic operation in Bioinformatics used routinely worldwide. Smith-Waterman is the exact algorithm used to compare two sequences, obtaining the optimal alignment in quadratic time and space. In order to accelerate Smith-Waterman, many parallel strategies were proposed in the literature, using platforms such as GPUs, Intel Phis and multi-cores. Nevertheless, aligning DNA sequences of millions of characters is still a very challenging task. In this talk, we discuss related work in the area of parallel biological sequence alignment and present our multi-platform tool, which was used to align DNA sequences with up to 249 millions of characters in 384 GPUs. In order to achieve this, we propose an innovative speculation technique, which is able to parallelize a phase of the Smith-Waterman traceback that is inherently sequential. We combined our speculation technique with sophisticated buffer management and fine-grain linear space matrix processing strategies to obtain our parallel algorithm. As far as we know, this is the first implementation of Smith-Waterman able to retrieve the optimal alignment between sequences with more than 100 millions of characters. We will also present block pruning, a pruning technique that is able to prune more than 50% of the Smith-Waterman matrix and still retrieve the optimal alignment. We will then present the MASA (Multiplatform Architecture for Sequence Aligners) tool, that implements our parallel algorithm and runs in multi-cores (OpenMP, OmpSs, OpenCL), IntelPhis (OpenMP) and GPUs (CUDA, OpenCL). At the end of the talk, we will discuss open problems and challenges.

We plan to choose the best paper and the award shield is given to the authors.

We plan to publish full versions of selected papers in the International Journal on Networking and Computing(IJNC). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their manuscripts after the workshop.

The International Journal of Networking and Computing is a biannual journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles in all areas of networking and computing. It has both print and online versions. All papers are indexed in indexing services including DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Google Scholar, J-DreamII, and J-GLOBAL.

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts, not to exceed 10 pages using Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. We also welcome comprehensive survey papers on timely topics. Abstracts must be registered through EasyChair by February 10, 2019. After the abstract registration, the PDF of the paper must be submitted by February 15, 2019. You can update abstract and the PDF anytime before the due dates.

• Template: Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings
• Submission site: EasyChair

We plan to publish full versions of selected papers in the International Journal on Networking and Computing(IJNC). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their manuscripts after the workshop.

The International Journal of Networking and Computing is a biannual journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles in all areas of networking and computing. It has both print and online versions. All papers are indexed in indexing services including DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Google Scholar, J-DreamII, and J-GLOBAL.

Please see International Journal on Networking and Computing(IJNC) for the details of submission.

• All dates are in UTC and submission must be done by 23:59PM in UTC.
• Abstract registration due: January 26 February 5 February 10, 2019 (extended, firm)
• Full paper submission due: February 1 February 10 February 15, 2019 (extended, firm)
• Notification: March 1 March 5, 2019
• Final manuscript due: March 15, March 22 2019

• Jacir L. Bordim, University of Brasilia
• Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University

• Susumu Matsumae, Saga University
• Masahiro Shibata, Kyushu Institute of Technology

• Alex Aravind, University of Northern British Columbia
• Amlan Chatterjee, California State University, Dominguez Hills
• Gianlorenzo D'Angelo, Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
• Ajoy K. Datta, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Stéphane Devismes, VERIMAG UMR 5104
• Martti Forsell, VTT
• Noriyuki Fujimoto, Osaka Prefecture University
• Sheikh Ghafoor, TTU
• Yan Gu, Carnegie Mellon University
• Thomas Herault, University of Tennessee
• Shuichi Ichikawa, Toyohashi University of Technology
• Fumihiko Ino, Osaka University
• Yasushi Inoguchi, JAIST
• Yasuaki Ito, Hiroshima University
• Chuzo Iwamoto, Hiroshima University
• Xiaohong Jiang, Future University Hakodate, Japan
• Yoshiaki Katayama, Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Michihiro Koibuchi, National Institute of Informatics
• Yamin Li, Hosei University
• Edward Luke. Mississippi State University
• Ami Marowka, Bar-Ilan University
• Eiji Miyano, Kyushu Institute of Technology
• Fukuhito Ooshita, NAIST
• Franck Petit, LiP6 CNRS-INRIA UPMC Sorbonne Universités
• Max Plauth, Hasso Plattner Institute
• Jonas Posner Uni Kassel
• Pradip Srimani, Clemson University
• Yasuhiko Takenaga, The University of Electro-Communications
• Jerry Trahan, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
• Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University
• Jiangtao Yin, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• History of APDCM
• IJNC (International Journal of Networking and Computing)
• CANDAR (International Symposium on Computing and Networking)

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