HiPC 2009 will feature the second student research symposium on High Performance Computing (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also expose students to the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The one-day symposium will feature brief presentations by student authors on their research, followed by a poster exhibit. Short invited talks by leading HPC researchers/practitioners will be included in the program. The symposium reception will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. To be considered, students should submit a 5 page extended abstract of their research.

For additional details, please contact the Symposium Co-Chairs at student_symposium AT hipc.org.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• High-Performance Computing
• Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
• Parallel Languages and Programming Environments
• Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management
• Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Systems
• Scientific/Engineering/Commercial Applications and Workloads
• Emerging Applications such as Biotechnology and Nanotechnology
• Cluster and Grid Computing
• Peer-to-peer Algorithms and Networks
• Heterogeneous Computing
• Wireless and Mobile Computing
• Communication/Sensor Networks and Embedded Applications
• Interconnection Networks and Architectures
• Scalable Servers and Systems
• High Performance/Scalable Storage Systems
• Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures
• Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing
• Software Support and Advanced Micro-architecture Techniques
• Operating Systems for Scalable High-Performance Computing

Please submit an extended abstract of your research results in PDF format electronically through EDAS. Authors can use last year's papers, available at http://hipc.org/hipc2008/studentsymposium.htm, as samples. Your document should be at most 5 letter or A4 size (8.5 x 11) pages in 11 pt or 12 pt font, single spaced, with at least one-inch margins on all sides. Please identify the names of student authors in a footnote. Poster selection will be competitive and all submissions will be reviewed. Manuscripts will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. If some part of your submission was published by you previously, then you should cite your prior work and indicate how the current submission differs from it.

Electronically submit your paper using through EDAS (http://edas.info/N8039).

The selected extended abstracts will be published online on the conference web site and on a CD to be distributed at the conference. They will not be part of the official conference technical paper proceedings.