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Use when deciding whether a parallel/concurrent-computing project belongs at PPoPP or should be routed to PLDI, CGO, POPL, ASPLOS, HPCA, SC, SPAA, or OOPSLA, and when distinguishing PPoPP's "the parallelism is the point" scope from a compiler contribution (CGO/PLDI), a concurrency logic (POPL), or a microarchitecture result (ASPLOS/HPCA).

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# PPoPP Topic Selection

Decide the venue before drafting. PPoPP — the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of
Parallel Programming — is the premier forum for work whose **center of gravity is parallelism and
concurrency**: parallel languages, compilers, and runtimes; lock-free/wait-free data structures;
GPU/accelerator and NUMA performance; parallel algorithms; and scalability studies. A technically
strong paper whose real contribution is a compiler pass, a program logic, or a cache design is
respected here and then rejected as out of scope. The question PPoPP reviewers ask first is: **is
the parallelism the point, or is it the setting?**

## The routing question that matters most

PPoPP sits inside the co-located **HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC** week, so its nearest neighbors are one
hallway away and the boundary is real. Use the "is the parallelism the point?" test: if you removed
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