Message from PhD Forum Organizers

The IPDPS PhD Forum was initiated by the IEEE Computer Society´s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing as part of its mission to promote parallel processing research and education, especially at the PhD level. Under the leadership of the TCPP chair Sushil K. Prasad, the first PhD Forum took place at IPDPS 2008 in Miami. Based on the supportive reception that year, it was repeated last year in Rome, with Yves Robert serving as chair. His prior experience as a program chair for the IPDPS conference program helped to formulate a technical framework for making the PhD Forum a regular part of IPDPS events, and we have appreciated being able to work from his template in organizing the PhD Forum as part of the IPDPS 2010 program. Thus, our first thanks go to Sushil and Yves for setting the foundation for this event and an additional thanks to Sushil for his commitment to finding new and “richer” resources for student travel support to enable participation in the Forum.