Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
Encyclopedia
PPoPP, the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, is an academic conference
in the field of parallel programming. PPoPP is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery
special interest group SIGPLAN.
, United States
; the first conference was called ACM/SIGPLAN Conference on Parallel Programming: Experience with Applications, Languages and Systems (PPEALS). The name changed to the present one when the conference was organised for the second time in 1990.
The conference has been organised biennially in 1991–2005 and annually in 2006–2009. PPoPP was part of the Federated Computing Research Conference
(FCRC) in 1993, 1999, and 2003.
Academic conference
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in the field of parallel programming. PPoPP 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 group SIGPLAN.
History
The conference was first organised in 1988 in New Haven, ConnecticutNew Haven, Connecticut
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, United States
United States
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; the first conference was called ACM/SIGPLAN Conference on Parallel Programming: Experience with Applications, Languages and Systems (PPEALS). The name changed to the present one when the conference was organised for the second time in 1990.
The conference has been organised biennially in 1991–2005 and annually in 2006–2009. PPoPP 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) in 1993, 1999, and 2003.