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| Euro-Par | |
|---|---|
| Name | Euro-Par |
| Type | Conference Series |
| Established | 1979 |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Discipline | Parallel Computing |
Euro-Par
Euro-Par is a long-running European conference series focused on parallel computing, high-performance computing, and related computer architecture and distributed systems topics. Founded to bring together researchers from institutions such as CERN, Fraunhofer Society, EPFL, and Max Planck Society, the series has attracted contributors from universities like University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Technical University of Munich, and companies including Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, and IBM. Over its history the event has intersected with initiatives and projects funded by European Commission, Horizon 2020, and collaborations involving PRACE and CEPHES.
Euro-Par began in the late 1970s amid advances by groups at INRIA, CNRS, University of Edinburgh, and University of Manchester, when parallel architectures such as those developed at Cray Research, Thinking Machines Corporation, and Bull SAS drove new research agendas. Early proceedings featured work connected to algorithms from teams at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory, and referenced programming models promoted by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Carnegie Mellon University. The series evolved alongside milestones like the emergence of MPI, innovations at Intel Paragon, and experiments with accelerators from NVIDIA and AMD. Key historical contributors include faculty from University of Pisa, Politecnico di Milano, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and University of Rome La Sapienza.
Euro-Par’s scope covers practical and theoretical advances arising from projects led at Imperial College London, TU Delft, RWTH Aachen University, and Delft University of Technology. Objectives emphasize dissemination of results from collaborations involving Sony Research, Microsoft Research, Google Research, and governmental labs like DLR and CEA. Topics accepted span work on systems from ARM Holdings designs to research influenced by standards from OpenMP Architecture Review Board and Khronos Group, and engage communities around initiatives such as Exascale Computing Project and European Processor Initiative.
Euro-Par is organized by academic committees drawing membership from institutions including Universität Heidelberg, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, University of Warsaw, and Università di Bologna. The program committee typically includes editors and supporters from publishers like Springer Science+Business Media, representatives from societies such as ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and liaison contacts with organizations like PRACE and ERC. Governance involves conference chairs from University of Lisbon, University of Helsinki, and Technical University of Denmark, and steering committees connected to networks like COST and projects funded by European Research Council.
Annual Euro-Par conferences have been hosted in cities including Berlin, Paris, Athens, Lisbon, Bologna, Vienna, Porto, Bern, Manchester, and Sofia. Events feature tracks on techniques developed by teams at MIT, Stanford University, Princeton University, and Harvard University, plus workshops driven by groups at École Polytechnique, University of Barcelona, and University of Milan. Co-located tutorials have included content from NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, demonstrations by Intel Labs, and panels with contributors from Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Research presented at Euro-Par spans algorithmic work from Donald Knuth-influenced analyses to systems-level engineering inspired by laboratories such as Sandia National Laboratories and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Themes include scheduling approaches developed in collaboration with Siemens AG researchers, fault tolerance strategies linked to efforts at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and performance modeling techniques advanced by teams at University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. Contributions have influenced standards like Message Passing Interface and informed implementations in products from Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard, and Fujitsu.
Euro-Par fosters partnerships between universities—University of Oxford, University of Glasgow, Sorbonne University—and industry labs such as ARM Research, IBM Research, HP Labs, Oracle Labs, and Cisco Systems. Collaborative grants and projects showcased include proposals submitted to European Commission frameworks, joint research with Siemens and Thales, and industrial case studies from Airbus and Bosch. These interactions support technology transfer to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform as well as adoption by supercomputing centers such as Jülich Research Centre and Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Euro-Par presentations and papers have been recognized with awards and citations referencing prizes from organizations such as ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, and national academies like Royal Society and Académie des sciences. Notable prize winners include faculty affiliated with University of Illinois, ETH Zurich, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and institutions honored by grants from European Research Council and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.