The document summarizes information about the 2nd Ural Workshop on Parallel, Distributed, and Cloud Computing for Young Scientists to be held in Yekaterinburg, Russia on October 6, 2016. The workshop aims to provide young scientists an opportunity to present their research in English and prepare for international conferences. Topics will include high performance computing, distributed computing, cloud computing, big data processing, and parallel computing education. In 2015, there were 22 submissions and 15 papers were accepted. For 2016, 18 papers were submitted and 12 were accepted with a 33% rejection rate. Accepted papers will be published online through CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

1. Ural-PDC 2016
2nd Ural Workshop on Parallel, Distributed, and Cloud
Computing for Young Scientists
Yekaterinburg, Russia, October 6, 2016
Andrey Sozykin, avs@imm.uran.ru

2. Workshop Aim
 Provide the young scientists with the possibility to
present their results in English
 Writing
 Speaking
 Preparation for English-language international
conferences abroad
 Rules:
 Report in English
 Questions and answers in English
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3. Workshop Organizers
 Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics UrB RAS
 Ural Federal University
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4. Workshop Topics
 High Performance Computing
 Distributed Computing
 Cloud Computing
 Big Data Processing
 Parallel Computing Education
 Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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5. Ural-PDC 2015
 Submissions: 22
 Papers: 21
 Presentations: 1
 Each paper was reviewed at least by 3 members of
the Program Committee
 15 papers was accepted for the workshop
 7 paper was rejected
 Rejection rate: 32%
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6. Workshop Papers
 2 keynote presentations
 Submissions: 18
 Each paper was reviewed at least by 3 members of
the Program Committee
 12 papers was accepted for the workshop
 10 Accepted
 2 Accepted with major revision
 6 papers was rejected
 Rejection rate: 33%
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7. Program Committee
 Chair: Vitalii Ivanovich Berdyshev
 Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
 Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics UrB RAS
 Organizations:
 Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics UrB RAS,
Yekaterinburg, Russia
 Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
 South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
 Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics UrB RAS, Perm,
Russia
 ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
 Ghent University, Belgium
 High Performance Center Stuttgart, Germany
 Singularis Lab, LLC
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8. Publication
 Accepted papers will be published at the CEUR
Workshop Proceedings
 Online Proceedings for Scientific Workshops
 http://ceur-ws.org/
 Publication is free of charge
 Papers are available online (Open Access)
 “… publication databases, e.g. Scopus, also crawl CEUR-
WS.org or DBLP on a regular basis. We have no formal
relation with any of them.”
 “However, there is no guarantee that your proceedings
volume will be indexed …”
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9. Publication
 Only papers that are presented at the workshop
will be published
 For conditionally accepted papers the publication
decision will be made based on:
 The quality of the report
 Corrections of the reviewers' comments in the camera-
ready version of the paper
 Camera ready version deadline:
 October 14, 2016
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10. Publication
 You have received the comments on the paper
format
 Please, fix the formatting issues as soon as possible
 Please, use the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science LaTeX template:
 ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
 Please, read the LNCS Authors Guidelines carefully:
 ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/instruct/authors/authors.pdf
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11. Thank you for attending
the Ural-PDC Workshop!
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