News

Tutorial Schedule Changes: The GPU tutorials have been cancelled and the Charm++ tutorial has been shorted to the Tuesday morning session.

Additional student travel grants are available. These funds cover international travel. Any student planning on attending ICS is encouraged to apply.

The MPI/SMPSs tutorial is now a full day.

Register by May 2nd to get hotel conference rate.

The Workshop on Accelerator Architectures of the Masses (WACy) has been cancelled.

United States travel and visa information added to the registration page.

Student travel grants are available [Corrected link]. Application deadline is May 7th.

NVIDIA will be sponsoring the Best Paper Award, and will be awarding a Tesla C2070 GPU card to the winner.


ICS (International Conference on Supercomputing) is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in high-performance computing systems. In 2011 the conference will be held at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Arizona.

Papers are solicited on all aspects of research, development, and application of large-scale, high-performance experimental and commercial systems. The list of topics includes (but not limited to):

All papers should clearly motivate their relationship to supercomputing in order to receive consideration for acceptance. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in the ACM format. The review process will include a rebuttal period.

Important dates

Abstract submission:January 10, 2011
Paper submission:January 14, 2011
Workshop/Tutorial proposal:January 21, 2011
Author notification:March 1, 2011
Poster abstract submission:March 25, 2011 (extended)
Poster notification:March 31, 2011
Final papers:March 31, 2011
Early registration deadline:May 7th, 2011
Hotel reservations deadline:May 2, 2011
Workshps and Tutorials:May 31st, June 4, 2011
Main conference:June 1-3, 2011