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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Call for Tutorials for Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing 2012


Since 2007, the Latin-American Conference on High Performance Computing (CLCAR) is an event for students, scientists and researchers in the areas of high performance computing, high throughput computing, parallel and distributed systems, e-science and applications, in a global context, but with special scope in latinoamerican propositions.
It is the goal of the 2012 program committee to offer conference attendees and local participants a stimulating and informative selection of tutorials about current topics of CLCAR Interests.
Experts and researchers from different countries and related domains form the program and scientific committees of CLCAR 2012. Competent people from various countries and institutes will carry out the process of evaluating the proposals of tutorials. CLCAR 2012 to be held in Ciudad de Panama, Panama, in August 27-31. 

CLCAR 2012 official languages are English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Selected tutorials will be presented in a half-day tutorial (4 hours) or full day (8 hours) addressed to 15-20 participants.
Proposals can be submitted in ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE or SPANISH only. The oral presentation of the tutorial may be in any CLCAR official language, but the slides will be in English anyway.
Topics of Interest:
The topics of interest for CLCAR include, but are not limited to:
1.              Platforms and Infrastructures
◦                                  Scalable Architectures
◦                                  Parallel and Distributed Architectures
◦                                  Cluster Computing
◦                                  Grid Computing
▪                                                    Testbed Grid
▪                                                    Lightweight Grids
▪                                                    Desktop Grid Computing
▪                                                    Production Grids
◦                                  High Performance Networks to Science and Technology
◦                                  Cloud Computing
◦                                  P2P
◦                                  Embedded High Performance Computing and Systems
◦                                  Virtualization in Scalable and Pervasive Computing
◦                                  HPC Green Computing
◦                                  Collaborative Computing
◦                                  High Density Computing
2.              e-Science and Applications
◦                                  Applications for science and technology
◦                                  Industrial and business applications
◦                                  Health Applications and Solutions
◦                                  Learning and Educational applications
◦                                  Grid Services
◦                                  Program Languages and Paradigms
◦                                  Simulation
◦                                  Modelling
◦                                  Cloud Services
3.              Special Topics
◦                                  Performance Evaluation of High Performance, Distributed and Scalable Systems
◦                                  Fault Tolerance
◦                                  Semantic Grid
◦                                  Games Theory
◦                                  Optimization
◦                                  Security
◦                                  Economy Grid
◦                                  Green Computing

Tutorial Format
Proposals  should be submitted in PDF with the next important information:

1.     ·  Title of the tutorial
2.     ·  Instructor and their credentials (CV)
3.     ·  Aims/Learning objectives
4.     ·  Description of topics
5.     ·  Scope of the tutorial
6.     ·  Tutorial history (previous offerings of tutorial, if any)
7.     ·  Format of tutorial (1/2 day, 1 day)
8.     ·  300 Word Abstract (1-2 paragraphs suitable for inclusion in conference registration materials)
9.     ·  Keywords
10.  ·  Full description (1-2 pages to be used for evaluation)
11.  ·  Target Audience Information
12.  ·  Prerequisite knowledge of audience
13.  ·  Relevant references that would support proposal evaluation

Instructors of selected tutorials will be held in Panama City, with inscription and hotel expenses paid by CLCAR 2012 Conference.


Important Dates
•                Submissions:
◦                                  Open March 26 /2012
◦                                  Deadline for Full Paper Proposal: May 5 /2012
◦                                  Notification of Acceptance: June 1 /2012
•                Conference:
◦                                  August 27-31 (Tutorials 27-28)


Submissions: http://www.clcar.org
More information in Spanish, Portuguese or English:
gilberto@ula.ve 

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