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A comprehensive guide for authors targeting the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP). This skill helps assess if a computer science manuscript fits the venue, focusing on techniques like parallel programming models, compilers, runtimes, and multicore/GPU systems. It provides structured advice on framing the contribution, identifying evidence gaps, and positioning the work against related top-tier conferences.

This comprehensive guide outlines the requirements for submitting computational artifacts for post-acceptance evaluation at PPoPP. It details PPoPP's unique badge policy (Functional, Reusable, Results Reproduced), addresses the challenges of ensuring results reproduce across different hardware architectures, and provides a detailed packaging plan, including containerization, README structure, and provenance documentation for maximizing reproducibility.

This guide details the strategic process for writing a constrained, data-driven rebuttal for competitive academic conferences (such as PPoPP). It teaches authors how to structure responses to address scaling questions, compare results against baselines, correct factual misreadings, and maximize impact within strict word and time limits. Focus on evidence, not argument.

A comprehensive guide for converting an anonymized academic submission into the final, polished camera-ready version for ACM proceedings. Details systematic de-anonymization, mandatory ACM rights/metadata completion (eRights, CCS Concepts), permanent DOI linking for artifacts, and critical production checks required for two-column acmart formatting.

This comprehensive guide outlines the rigorous methodology required for designing high-impact evaluations of parallel systems and algorithms for top-tier conferences. It stresses that contributions must demonstrate the 'twin bar': both concurrency correctness (e.g., linearizability) and measurable scalability (e.g., strong vs. weak scaling). It covers best practices for establishing strong baselines, managing measurement hygiene (variance, pinning), and anticipating advanced reviewer scrutiny in HPC.

A comprehensive guide for researchers detailing how to structure the 'Related Work' section for top-tier parallel computing conferences like PPoPP. It emphasizes 'delta-first' comparison, covering specific technical lanes (concurrent data structures, runtimes, GPU acceleration, memory models), and ensuring proper academic positioning against major parallel systems venues.

This guide outlines the necessary steps to ensure that parallel computing performance papers are scientifically reproducible. Since parallel results depend heavily on machine architecture, topology, and runtime conditions, proper documentation must cover everything from CPU/GPU specifications and interconnects to thread pinning policies, random seeds, and compiler flags. The focus is on proving the scaling trend, not just the absolute numbers, allowing results to hold true across different hardware platforms.

A comprehensive deep dive into the PPoPP conference review pipeline. This guide models the single-round, double-blind review process, detailing how submissions are evaluated by the Program Committee and External Review Committee. It covers critical aspects such as the author response rebuttal, automatic poster consideration, and the specific technical axes reviewers prioritize (e.g., scalability, concurrency correctness, baseline honesty) for parallel programming research.

This comprehensive guide provides a detailed audit checklist for submitting research papers to the PPoPP conference. It covers crucial academic requirements, including adherence to the two-column ACM format, strict page limits, abstract guidelines, and maintaining double-blind anonymity by scrubbing identifying information (e.g., cluster names, grant numbers). Use this checklist before final submission to avoid desk-rejection.

This guide helps researchers structure their academic papers for the PPoPP conference. It outlines the principle of 'decision-criticality,' advising authors to keep core correctness arguments, headline scaling curves, and design insights in the main body, while moving bulk data, full proofs, and extensive sweeps to the artifact or appendix.

This guide helps researchers determine the correct academic venue for their work in parallel and concurrent computing. It clarifies the scope of PPoPP versus related conferences (CGO, PLDI, ASPLOS, HPCA, POPL, etc.) by asking: 'Is the parallelism the point, or is it the setting?' Use this framework to distinguish contributions focused on parallel algorithms, compiler optimization, concurrency theory, or hardware microarchitecture.

A comprehensive guide for planning the entire PPoPP conference submission lifecycle. It outlines the critical path, from initial draft creation, securing machine time, through author rebuttal, artifact evaluation, and final camera-ready submission. Use this to manage the timeline backward from the final conference dates.