IPDPS travels to Shanghai in 2012.Our hosts from Shanghai Jiao Tong University have been working with us to prepare for an event that offers our rich program of workshops，a PhD Forum，and the technical program of contributed papers，invited speakers，and tutorials.In 2012，it will be a very special opportunity for attendees and their families to visit Shanghai and explore other parts of China.Join us at the Regal Shanghai East Asia Hotel，which offers full amenities and well-appointed meeting rooms.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing，including the development of experimental or commercial systems.Work focusing on emerging technologies is especially welcome.Topics of interest include，but are not limited to:

Parallel and distributed algorithms，focusing on issues such as:stability，scalability，and fault-tolerance of algorithms and data structures for parallel and distributed systems，communication and synchronization protocols，network algorithms，scheduling，and load balancing.

Applications of parallel and distributed computing，including web applications，peer-to-peer computing，cloud and grid computing，scientific applications，and mobile computing.Papers focusing on applications using novel commercial or research architectures，or discussing scalability toward the exascale level are encouraged.

Parallel and distributed architectures，including architectures for instruction-level and thread-level parallelism;petascale and exascale systems designs;special-purpose architectures，including graphics processors，signal processors，network processors，media accelerators，and other special purpose processors and accelerators;impact of technology on architecture;network and interconnect architectures;parallel I/O and storage systems;architecture of the memory hierarchy;power-efficient architectures;dependable architectures;and performance modeling and evaluation.

Parallel and distributed software，including parallel and multicore programming languages and compilers，runtime systems，operating systems，resource management，middleware for grids and clouds，libraries，performance modeling and evaluation，parallel programming paradigms，and programming environments and tools.

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