PACT solicits novel papers, workshops, tutorials, and entries to an ACM student research competition on a broad range of topics that include, but are not limited to:

• Parallel architectures and computational models

• Compilers and tools for parallel computer systems

• Multicore, multithreaded, superscalar, and VLIW architectures

• Compiler/hardware support for hiding memory latencies

• Support for correctness in hardware and software

• Reconfigurable parallel computing

• Dynamic translation and optimization

• I/O issues in parallel computing and their relation to applications

• Parallel programming languages, algorithms and applications

• Middleware and run time system support for parallel computing

• Application-specific parallel systems

• Applications and experimental systems studies of parallel processing

• Relevant aspects of distributed computing and mobile computing

• Heterogeneous systems using various types of accelerators

• Insights from modern parallel applications such as, but not limited to, machine learning, data analytics, and computational biology for the design of parallel architectures and compilers