In cooperation with the ACM
Special Interest Groups
SIGPLAN, SIGARCH, SIGACT.

Co-sponsored by the IFIP
in cooperation with WG 10.3.

In cooperation with the
IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee TCPP.

This is the official Web site of the Euro-Par conference series. The original document is located at www.Euro-Par.org.

Euro-Par Mission Statement

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel computing. The major themes can be divided into the broad categories of hardware, software, algorithms and applications for parallel computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum within which to promote the development of parallel computing both as an industrial technique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. This is particularly important at a time when parallel computing is undergoing strong and sustained development and experiencing real industrial take up. The main audience for and participants in Euro-Par are seen as researchers in academic departments, government laboratories and industrial organisations. Euro-Par's objective is to be the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specific areas. Euro-Par is also interested in applications which demonstrate the effectiveness of the main Euro-Par themes.

The History of Euro-Par

Euro-Par is an annual conference series, which started in 1995 and unified three series that evolved in the early 1980s with the development of parallel and distributed computing, namely: PARLE, CONPAR and VAPP. Euro-Par provides the major European venue for the presentation of research results in this area.

Sites of past conferences

Euro-Par'95: SICS and KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Euro-Par'96: Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Euro-Par'97: University of Passau, Germany
Euro-Par'98: University of Southampton, UK
Euro-Par'99: CERFACS / ENSEEIGHT-IRIT, Toulouse, France
Euro-Par 2000: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Euro-Par 2001: University of Manchester / Manchester Visualization Centre, UK
Euro-Par 2002: University of Paderborn, Germany
Euro-Par 2003: University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Euro-Par 2004: University of Pisa, Italy
Euro-Par 2005: New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Euro-Par 2006: Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Euro-Par 2007: IRISA/ENS Cachan, Rennes, France
Euro-Par 2008: University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain

Here is a link collection to the Euro-Par Proceedings.

Sites of future conferences

Euro-Par 2009: Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Euro-Par 2010: ICAR-CNR , Naples, Italy

Call for bids to organize a Euro-Par conference

Euro-Par 2011: please submit a statement of intent by 15 January 2009

If you would like to run a Euro-Par conference, ask the chair of the steering committee for a copy of the Euro-Par Guidelines. They also explain how to prepare a bid.

The Euro-Par Conference Format

Euro-Par is a yearly conference, which takes place in late August. Since the 1996 conference in Lyon, Euro-Par conferences consist of a large array of topics on all aspects of parallel processing, from theory to practice, from academia to industry. Depending on the individual volumes of submission, topics are merged into tracks at the conference. The tracks are framed by high-level invited talks and introduced by tutorials of general interest.

Each topic is administered by a four-person committee. One committee member, the global chair, represents the topic to the international community, another, the local chair, represents it to the conference organization team. Each submission is reviewed four times, each committee member is responsible for one review. Submission and reviewing is entirely electronic, except in extenuating circumstances.

All presented papers are available at the conference in the proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. The contributions are classified into invited papers (talk: 45-60 minutes, page limit: negotiable), distinguished papers (talk: 30 min, page limit: 12 pages) and regular papers (talk: 30 min, page limit: 10+1 pages) Here, in x+y pages, x pages are for free and upto y pages can be purchased additionally.

The journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience will publish a best papers selection of Euro-Par each year. Participation is by invitation and requires the submission and review of an extended version of the conference paper.

The Euro-Par Steering Committee

The Euro-Par steering committee selects the future conference sites, oversees the planning of the yearly conferences and maintains the continuity of the series. Since we can now draw from a wide range of experience in running Euro-Par, the rules of membership of Europeans on the steering committee have been changed in 2006 and are as follows:

When a bid for organizing the conference is granted, one central member of the organization team is made an observer of the steering committee.
In the following year, when the conference is being held, this person becomes a full member of the steering committee.
Members remain on the steering committee until they hand in their resignation or do not attend two consecutive committee meetings.

The non-European representatives in the steering committee are nominated by the steering committee. Honorary members are appointed for life by the steering committee.

Here is the list of the present members of the steering committee:

European representatives:

Christian Lengauer (Chair) (University of Passau, Germany)
Luc Bougé (Vice-Chair) (ENS Cachan, France)

José Cunha (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Marco Danelutto (University of Pisa, Italy)
Rainer Feldmann (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Christos Kaklamanis (Computer Technology Institute, Greece)
Paul Kelly (Imperial College, United Kingdom)
Harald Kosch (University of Passau, Germany)
Thomas Ludwig (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Emilio Luque (University Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain)
Tomàs Margalef (University Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain)
Wolfgang Nagel (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

Honorary members:

Ron Perrott (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
Karl Dieter Reinartz (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Observers:

Henk Sips (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Italy)

Liaison with Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience:

Luc Moreau (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)

The Euro-Par Advisory Board

The Euro-Par advisory board is an international gremium of professionals interested in fostering parallel computing, which serves as a representation of the Euro-Par community and a source of ideas for the development of the Euro-Par conference series.

Non-Europeans may be members of the advisory board. Here is a list of current members.

There are two ways to get onto the Euro-Par advisory board:

If you have served on a Euro-Par programme committee, your are put on the board automatically.
You can be nominated for membership by a member of the advisory board.

Please contact the Chair of the steering committee if you would like to terminate your membership of the Euro-Par advisory board.

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Last update by Christian Lengauer 12.11.2008