HPCS 2012, which is being held alongside the BCNET Conference on May 1 - 3 in Vancouver, BC, is now accepting papers on any HPC-related topic. The deadline for abstract submissions is March 15. Topics areas for papers include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

• Applications of HPC to any discipline in the physical, life and social sciences, and engineering
• Computer architectures
• Parallel/distributed/vector algorithms
• Grid or cloud computing and related tools
• Performance Modeling Evaluation
• Wide-area data transfer
• Management of large data sets
• Green HPC or energy-efficient data centres
• Visualization
• Systems and Management

Accepted papers presented as lectures or posters will be published online in the open access Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), which is published by the Institute of Physics Publishing in the UK. All papers published in JPCS are fully citable and upon publication will be free to download. Citations to JPCS papers are tracked online using IOP Publishing’s citing articles facility, in addition to the full citation tracking facilities provided by Scopus.

For more information, or to submit your abstract online, please visit the HPCS 2012 website or email 2012@hpcs.ca.