HPDC

Welcome to the 23nd ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'14). HPDC'14 follows the tradition of previous versions of the conference by providing a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting new research results on all aspects of the design, implementation, evaluation, and application of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. The HPDC'14 program features seven sessions on Checkpointing and Migration, FaultTolerance, Memory Management, Scheduling and Mapping, BigData and MapReduce, Graph Processing, and Cloud and Virtualization. Additionally, this year the conference has included a number of short papers for presentation in three sessions: Systems, I/O, and Data-Intensive Computing. Professor Krishna Palem of Rice University will give a keynote presentation. This program is complemented by an interesting set of workshops on a range of timely and related systems and application topics.

The conference once again features the presentation of the HPDC Annual Achievement Award, which was started in 2012. The purpose of this award is to recognize individuals who have made longlasting, influential contributions to the foundations or practice of the field of high-performanceparallel and distributed computing, to raise the awareness of these contributions, especially among theyounger generation of researchers, and to improve the image and the public relations of the HPDC community. The process of selecting the winner of the award was formalized this year with an open call for nominations. The recipient of the 2014 HPDC Achievement Award is Professor Rich Wolski of the University of California at Santa Barbara, who will give an Achievement Award Talk as a keynote at the conference.

The HPDC'14 call for papers attracted 130 paper submissions. In the review process this year, we followed two established methods that were started in 2012: the two-round review and the author rebuttal. In the first round of review, all papers received three reviews, and based on these reviews, 91 papers went to the second round in which virtually all of them received another two or three reviews. In total, 559 reviews were generated by the 49-member Program Committee along with a number of external reviewers. For many of the 91 second-round papers, the authors submitted rebuttals. Rebuttals were carefully taken into consideration during the Program Committee deliberations as part of the selection process. On March 20-21, the Program Committee met at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) and made the final selection. Every one of the 130 submissions was discussed at the meeting. At the end of the 1.5-day meeting, the Program Committee accepted 21 full papers, resulting in an acceptance rate of 16.2%. In addition, the committee accepted 13 submissions as short papers. We would like to thank all contributing authors, regardless of the results of their submissions. We are very grateful to the Program Committee members for their hard work and for providing their reviews on time, in what was a very tight review schedule and a very rigorous review process.

HPDC 2014 has been generously sponsored by ACM SIGARCH and The University of Arizona. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the US Department of Energy, the US National Science Foundation, NVIDIA, Indiana University, EMC Corporation, COHO Data and PGI.