<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body><br><div dir="ltr">**********************************************************************<br>We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers.<br>Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested.<br><br>**********************************************************************<br><br>Mendoza, Argentina - July 29-30, 2013<br><a href="http://hpc2013.hpclatam.org" target="_blank">http://hpc2013.hpclatam.org</a><br><br>Important Dates<br>===============<br><br>Paper submission deadline (strong!): June 2, 2013<br>(<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=HPCLatAm2013" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=HPCLatAm2013</a>)<br>Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2013<br><br>New<br>===<br>The most outstanding papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version <br>(at least 50% of novel scientific contribution) to one Special Issue in The <br>Computer Journal (JCR/ISI, Q2, Impact Factor: 0.785, 5-Yr Impact Factor: 0.943).<br><br>Overview<br>========<br>The use and development of High-Performance Computing in Latin America<br>is steadily growing. New challenges come from the new capabilities<br>provided by clusters, grids, and distributed systems for HPC, promoting<br><br>research and innovation in this area.<br><br>Building on the great success of the previous five editions, this year<br>the Latin American Symposium on High Performance Computing will include<br>three major events: the Second High Performance Computing School-ECAR<br><br>2013 (Mendoza, from July 22 to July 30), the HPCLatAm2013 International <br>Symposium itself (Mendoza, July 29-30), and the HPC Day within the 42nd <br>Argentine Conference of Informatics-JAIIO (Córdoba, September 18). <br><br>The main goal of HPCLatAM2013 is to provide a regional forum fostering<br>the growth of the HPC community in Latin America through the exchange<br>and dissemination of new ideas, techniques, and research in HPC.<br>The symposium will feature invited talks from academy and industry,<br><br>short- and full-paper sessions presenting both mature work and new ideas<br>in research and industrial applications.<br><br>The most outstanding papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version (at least 50% of novel scientific contribution) to one Special Issue in The Computer Journal (JCR/ISI, Q2, Impact Factor: 0.785, 5-Yr Impact Factor: 0.943).<br><br>Instructions for Authors<br>========================<br>Short- and full-length papers must be written in English according to<br>Springer LNCS style (guidelines available at:<br><a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" target="_blank">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>).<br><br>Papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.<br>Submissions will be handled electronically using Easy Chair system<br>(<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=HPCLatAm2013" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=HPCLatAm2013</a>).<br><br>Full papers must not exceed 12 pages, including name, affiliation and address of the author(s), figures, tables, references, and an abstract of no more than 200 words. <br>All full paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least two experts and returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure the high quality of accepted papers. <br><br>Full papers accepted for the program will appear in the HPCLatAm2013 proceedings.<br><br>Short papers describing on-going work or ideas to be further discussed during the conference (must not exceed 4 pages). Short papers accepted for the program will appear in the proceedings (not expanded to full papers, and with Short Paper in the title) and be orally presented during the Symposium (in suitably shorter speaking slots) as a regular part of the program.<br><br>The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be<br>presented at the Symposium. At least one author of each accepted paper<br>must be duly registered for the symposium in order for the paper to be<br><br>scheduled in the papers session and to appear in the HPCLatAm2013<br>proceedings.<br><br>Up-to-date information about the program and the symposium organization<br>can be found at <a href="http://hpc2013.hpclatam.org" target="_blank">http://hpc2013.hpclatam.org</a><br><br>Authors of the best papers submitted to the workshop will be invited to submit their extended versions to a special issue in The Computer Journal (JCR/ISI, Q2, Impact Factor: 0.785, 5-Yr Impact Factor: 0.943).<br><br><br>Chairs<br>======<br>Carlos García Garino, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina<br>Marcela Printista, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina<br><br>Contact Information: hpc2013 (at) <a href="http://hpclatam.org" target="_blank">hpclatam.org</a><br></div><br></body></html>