AusPDC 2021 will be held online in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2021), 1 - 5 February 2021.
In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following a couple of successful events, it comes to the 19th in 2021 in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations.
Topics of interest for the symposium include (but not limited to):
Cloud computing
Fog/edge computing
Grid and Cluster computing
Big Data processing and analytics
Virtualization, containers, unikernels, orchestration and other enablers
Security, trust and privacy in Clouds/Fog/Edge
Mobile, sensor networks and Internet of things
Data storage, placement and replication
Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains
Multi-core systems
Peer-to-peer computing
GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors
Service computing and workflow management
Managing large distributed data sets
Middleware and tools
Network function virtualisation and Software defined networks
Performance evaluation and modelling
Datacentre and Interconnection networks
Performance accelerators
Problem-solving environments
Parallel programming models, languages and compilers
Operating systems and runtime systems
Resource scheduling and load balancing
Data mining and machine learning
Computational Science and Engineering
Agent-based computing
Reliability, security, privacy and dependability
e-Science and e-Health Applications
The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organisations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers.
Important Dates:
Paper submissions due: Sunday 29 November-Extended
Author notification: 15 December 2020
Camera-ready full papers due: 20 December 2020
Conference dates: 1 - 5 February 2021
The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM in conjunction with ACSW 2021. Papers should be formatted in double column according to ACM conference paper formatting guidelines ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. The following guidelines must be met for all submissions:
Submissions must be in English.
Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for full papers, 4 pages for short papers and 2 pages for posters.
Submissions must be in PDF format. Other formats will not be accepted.
Submissions must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work.
Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference.
Authors must choose the appropriate satellite conference or workshop for your submission
Papers are to be submitted via the ACSW 2021 Easy Chair Submission Site. Upon logging into the system, please select “New Submission”, then select "Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing" track and proceed through the steps for submission. Every submission will be reviewed by a minimum of three members of the program committee.
A selection commission chaired by the AusPDC technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper and the best student paper to receive an award during the conference.
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia
Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia
Irene Moser, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia
Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Yun Yang , Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Xingliang Yuan. Monash University, Australia
Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia
Arash Shaghaghi, Deakin University, Australia
Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, Monash University, Australia
Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia
Sukhpal Singh Gill, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Xiaoliang Fan School of Information Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, China
Minxian Xu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jianzhong Qi, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Josh Milthorpe, Australian National University
Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia
Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia
Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia
Richard Sinnott, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Nitin Auluck, Computer Science Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
Mohsen Amini, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Yogesh Sharma, Karlstad University, Sweden
Maria Rodriguez Read, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Marcos Assuncao Inria, LIP, ENS Lyon, France
Wei Li, The University of Sydney, Australia
Redowan Mahmud, RMIT University, Australia
Nour Moustafa, University of New South Wales at Canberra, Australia
Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia
Saurabh Garg, University of Tasmania, Australia
Raj Gaire, DATA61, Australia
Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia
Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide, Australia