The final deadline for submitting manuscripts to IPDPS 2004 has been extended to FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17.

We apologize that several manuscripts were mistakenly rejected by the IPDPS submission server between October 3 and 7. Authors should please verify in their email receipt the confirmation that their manuscript was successfully received by the server.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing including development of experimental or commercial systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. Parallel and distributed algorithms, including selfish computing, stability and fault tolerance of distributed systems, communication and synchronization protocols. 

2. Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including web applications, peer-to-peer computing, grid computing and scientific applications.

3. Parallel and distributed architectures, including signal and image processors, network processors, other special purpose processors, nontraditional processor technologies, network and interconnect architecture, and performance modeling and evaluation.

4. Parallel and distributed software, including parallel programming languages and compilers, operating systems, runtime, middleware, libraries, programming environments and tools for parallel and distributed computing.

BEST PAPER AWARDS
Awards will be given for the best paper in each of the four conference topics. The selected papers will also be considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

WHAT TO SUBMIT
Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 12 single-spaced pages of text using 12-point size type on 8.5x11 inch pages. References, figures, tables, etc. may be included in addition to the twelve pages of text. Hardcopy submissions will be accepted, but files in either PostScript (level 2) or PDF format are strongly encouraged. (Note: Authors need to make sure that the electronically submitted files will print on a PostScript printer that uses 8.5x11 inch paper.) Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be considered for another conference.

All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by October 3, 2003 at 12 Noon EST.

The final deadline for submitting manuscripts to IPDPS 2004 has been extended to FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17.

We apologize that several manuscripts were mistakenly rejected by the IPDPS submission server between October 3 and 7. Authors should please verify in their email receipt the confirmation that their manuscript was successfully received by the server.

Submissions received after the due date or exceeding the length limit may not be considered. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by December 19, 2003. Camera-ready papers will be due January 23, 2004.

IPDPS 2004 Proceedings for both contributed papers and workshops will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press on CD-ROM and will be distributed at the Symposium along with a hard copy volume of abstracts.