<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.]<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Eurographics 2017 Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">(EGPGV 2017) Call for Papers</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">=========================================================================</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">June 12-13, 2017, Barcelona, Spain</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Co-located with EuroVis 2017</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><a href="http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/egpgv/egpgv2017/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/egpgv/egpgv2017/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear colleagues,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The importance of parallel computing is increasing rapidly with the</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">ubiquitous availability of multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and cluster systems.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Computationally demanding and data-intensive applications in graphics</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">and visualization are strongly affected by this trend and require novel</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">efficient parallel solutions. The aim of this symposium is to foster the</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">exchange of experiences and knowledge exploiting and defining new trends</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">in parallel graphics and visualization.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The proceedings of the EGPGV Symposium will be published in the</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Eurographics Proceedings Series and in the Eurographics Digital Library.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Best papers from the EGPGV symposium will be invited to submit an</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">extended journal version to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Computer Graphics.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Focusing on parallel computing, the symposium seeks papers on graphics</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">and visualization techniques, data structures, algorithms, and systems for:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- large-data </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- HPC and cloud environments</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- (multi-)GPU computing, and heterogeneous, hybrid architectures</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- shared and/or distributed memory architectures</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- out-of-core<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The symposium topics include:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- computationally and data intensive rendering<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- scientific visualization (volume rendering, flow, and tensor visualization)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- information visualization and visual analytics<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- in-situ analytics and in-situ visualization</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- simulations for virtual environments (physics-based animation, collision detection, acoustics)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- mesh processing, level-of-detail, and geometric methods</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- visual computing (image- and video-based rendering, image processing and exploitation, segmentation)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- scheduling, memory management, and data coherence</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- distributed, parallel, or multi-threaded approaches<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- mapReduce-based and database-related methods, algorithms or approaches, query based visualization<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- advanced hardware for data handling or visualization<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- large and high resolution displays, virtual environments</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">- scientific, engineering, and industrial applications<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Submission types</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">========================</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works. Two types of submissions are accepted, as follows.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Full papers<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">========================<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Full papers are expected to be eight to ten (8-10) pages in length, with the</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">final length appropriate to the contribution of the paper. Submissions</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">are to be formatted along the Eurographics paper publication guidelines.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">We expect that full paper submissions will clearly discuss the novel and</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">significant contributions as well as related work in the field. Authors</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">must highlight how their contributions differ and advance the state of the art in parallel graphics and visualization. The full paper and all</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">supplementary material, if any, must be submitted via the PCS online system.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Short papers</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">============================<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">This year we introduce a new type of submission: short papers. Short papers target the same interest topics as full papers, but are maximally 4 pages in</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">length. As such, they typically address novel ideas or work in progress which</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">has not been sufficiently solidly validated as for full papers. Short papers can also target use-cases and applications of parallel graphics and visualization, presentation of parallel graphics and visualization tools and systems, industry</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">success stories, and showcases of applications making use of parallel graphics</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">and visualization. The short paper track thus broadens the visualization showcase track that was present in earlier editions of EGPGV. Short papers and their supplementary material, if any, must be submitted via the PCS online system.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Accepted papers (both full and short) will appear in the symposium proceedings</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">and be published via the Eurographics Digital Library.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Submission process<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">=================<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Papers are accepted when submitted via the PCS system (<a href="http://precisionconference.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">precisionconference.com</a>). Additional details with respect to the submission process will be announced shortly on <a href="http://egpgv.org/egpgv2017" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">egpgv.org/egpgv2017</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Reviewing process<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">=================<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Both paper types (full and short) will be reviewed by at least three members of the</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">International Program Committee (IPC), in a single review pass. Full papers deemed insufficient in terms of the contribution level expected for a full paper, but presenting</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">otherwise interesting, novel, and valuable results, can be selected by the IPC to be</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">accepted as short papers. The review process is not double blind; we leave it to the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">latitude of the authors whether they want to disclose their identity in their submissions.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Important Dates</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">=================</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Papers Submission: March 6, 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Author Notification: April 21, 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Camera-Ready Submission: April 30, 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Symposium: June 12-13, 2017</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Symposium Chair</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">=================</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Fernando Cucchietti, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Program Chairs</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">===============</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen, the Netherlands</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories, USA</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'MS Mincho';" class="">
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