NPC 2020 : The 17th Annual IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Parallel and distributed applications and algorithms

• Parallel and distributed issues and opportunities on artificial intelligence applications.
• Parallel algorithms for computational and data-enabled scientific, engineering, biological and medical applications.
• Parallel algorithms for accelerators, neuromorphic architectures, and other emerging architectures.

Parallel and distributed architectures and systems

• Domain-Specific Accelerators for AI, deep learning and applications in industry sectors (such as health: genomics, finance: block chain, and others)
• Non-traditional Computing Technology (Quantum/Optical/Superconducting computers)
• Emerging architectures and systems at all scales, from embedded to cloud.
• Systems for enabling parallelism at an extreme scale.
• Power-efficient and green computing systems.
• Neuromorphic architectures and cognitive computing accelerators.
• Heterogeneous multicore architectures and accelerators.
• In-Memory and near-data computing.
• Network and interconnect architectures.
• Storage systems in novel big data architectures.

Parallel and distributed software environments and tools

• Programming models and compilation for existing and emerging platforms.
• Dataflow programming models, frameworks, languages and environments for data-enabled platforms.
• Virtualization of machines, networks, and storage.
• I/O, file systems, and data management.
• Resource management, scheduling, and load balancing.