Preliminary Call for Papers
19th International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'05)
June 22-24, 2005
Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA


Sponsored by ACM/SIGARCH

ICS is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in 
high-performance computing systems.


Now in its 19th year, the conference also includes invited talks, tutorials, workshops, 
panels, and exhibits.  The conference will be held on the MIT campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of research, development, and application of high-performance systems.

The conference focus is the high performance computers and computation:

--  Architecture including   power-aware,   parallel I/O, grid-based, web-based, continuous monitoring, 
self-healing, fault-tolerant, embedded
--  Productivity  including benchmarks, performance evaluation studies, specialized languages, program 
development tools 
--  Systems including compilers, operating systems, schedulers, runtime optimization 
--  Applications  including numeric and non-numeric, scientific, biological, industrial, massive sensory processing,
--  Theoretical underpinnings of any of the above topics as well as analysis and experimental evaluation of systems.



Papers should not exceed 6,000 words, and must be submitted electronically using the submission form 
available at http:///ICS05.csail.mit.edu/submission.html. Submissions must be in pdf or postscript format. 
Area chairs will ensure that papers are properly reviewed and authors will be given a one week period in which to
respond to the reviewer's comments.

Workshop and tutorial proposals are solicited, and are due by March 1th, 2005. For further information and 
future updates, refer to the ICS'05 web site at http://ics05.csail.mit.edu or contact the General or Program Chairs.

General Chair: Arvind (arvind@csail.mit.edu)
Program Chair: Larry Rudolph (rudolph@csail.mit.edu)

Important Dates
Abstract Submission: February  15, 2005
Paper Submission:    February 22, 2005
Author notification: April 13, 2005
Final papers:  May 16, 2005
Conference: June 22 -- 24, 2005