Special Sessions

On this page we list information about the Special Sessions that will be part of the PDP 2009. Please check back here for updates, as we will include new Special Sessions as soon as we are informed by the session chairs.

Special Session: Efficient Use of Multi-Core Systems and Accelerator Cards for High Performance Computing
Chair: Gabriele Jost, Texas Advanced Computing Center, US

Special Session: Grid, Parallel and Distributed Bioinformatics Applications
Chairs: Daniele D'Agostino, IMATI-CNR, IT
Ivan Merelli, ITB-CNR, IT

Special Session: Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Peer-to-peer Environments
Chair: Julien Bourgeois, LIFC - University of Franche-Comte, FR

Special Session: Next Generation of Web Computing
Chair: Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer Institute, Schloss Birlinghoven, DE

Special Session: Security in Networked and Distributed Systems
Chair: Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, RU

Special Session: Virtualization in Distributed Systems
Chair: Thierry Delaitre, University of Westminster, UK