Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
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SPAA, the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, is an academic conference
Academic conference
An academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.-Overview:Conferences are usually composed of various...

 in the fields of parallel computing
Parallel computing
Parallel computing is a form of computation in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously, operating on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently . There are several different forms of parallel computing: bit-level,...

 and distributed computing
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...

. It is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

 special interest groups SIGACT
ACM SIGACT
ACM SIGACT or SIGACT is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, whose purpose is support of research in theoretical computer science. It was founded in 1968 by Patrick C. Fischer.-Publications:...

 and SIGARCH, and it is organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).

History

SPAA was first organised on 18–21 June 1989, in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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, United States
United States
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. In 1989–2002, SPAA was known as Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures. In 2003, the name changed to Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures to reflect the extended scope of the conference.

In 2003 and 2007, SPAA was part of the Federated Computing Research Conference
Federated Computing Research Conference
The Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC, is an event that brings together several academic conferences, workshops, and plenary talks in the field of computer science...

 (FCRC), and in 1998, 2005, and 2009, SPAA was co-located with the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
The Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing is an academic conference in the field of distributed computing organised annually by the Association for Computing Machinery ....

 (PODC).

See also


External links

  • SPAA proceedings in ACM
    Association for Computing Machinery
    The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

     digital library.
  • SPAA proceedings information in DBLP
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