Euro-Par Conference Series

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

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

Sites of future conferences

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 Achievement Award

Since 2008, the Euro-Par Achievement Award is being conveyed at the yearly conference banquet. Recipients are researchers with outstanding merit in parallel computing.

Past recipients

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: 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

Honorary members

Observers

Liaison with Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

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:

  1. If you have served on a Euro-Par programme committee, your are put on the board automatically.
  2. 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