| name | ppopp-workflow |
| description | Use when planning a PPoPP submission campaign end to end, sequencing the summer paper deadline, the author-response rebuttal window, notification, the post-acceptance CGO-shared artifact-evaluation round, the camera-ready, and the presentation inside the co-located HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC week. |
PPoPP Workflow
Plan the whole cycle backward from the submission deadline. PPoPP's calendar is entangled with the
co-located HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC week, so several dates (artifact evaluation, camera-ready,
registration) move in step with CGO. The dates below are the PPoPP 2026/2027 snapshot read on
2026-07-09 (see resources/official-source-map.md); reopen the live Important Dates page first,
and confirm whether the year runs one submission round or two.
The cycle at a glance (PPoPP 2026, the 31st edition)
Sep 1, 2025 Full-paper submission (abstract 100-400 words + PDF), AoE
Oct 27-29 Author-response period (the rebuttal window)
Nov 10 Author notification
Nov 17 Artifact submission to the AE committee
Jan 5, 2026 Artifact-evaluation notification
Jan 9, 2026 Final (camera-ready) paper due
Jan 31-Feb 4 Conference, Sydney (co-located with HPCA/CGO/CC)
For PPoPP 2027 (the 32nd edition, Salt Lake City, March 20–24, 2027), the summer round
posts submission 3 August 2026 (ppopp27-summer.hotcrp.com), author response 6–8 October
2026, notification 26 October 2026. Whether a fall round also runs is 待核实 — confirm
before you assume a second bite.
Backward plan from the deadline
T-0 Submission: 10-page two-column acmart PDF + 100-400 word abstract, double-blind
T-1wk Freeze the scalability figures; run the double-blind sweep; set PC+ERC conflicts
T-3wk Final experiments: fill in the core sweep, the strongest baseline, variance bars
T-6wk Draft complete; run ppopp-writing-style and ppopp-experiments against it
T-3mo Lock the study design: machines reserved, topology recorded, seeds fixed
The unmovable PPoPP-specific risk is machine time. Speedup curves, NUMA sweeps, and GPU runs
need reserved, quiescent hardware; a shared cluster the week before the deadline yields noisy,
unrepeatable numbers. Reserve the machine, and record its exact topology, before you need the
final figures.
The rebuttal window (author response)
- The author-response period (PPoPP 2026: 27–29 October 2025) is a fixed 2–3 day window between
reviews and notification. Treat it as a scheduled deliverable, not a surprise.
- It is short and word-capped; you cannot run a month of new experiments. The experiments that
answer "does it scale?" and "what about baseline X?" must be anticipated and pre-run before
reviews arrive. See
ppopp-author-response.
After notification
- Accepted for a talk: proceed to the artifact round and the camera-ready.
- Automatic poster consideration: a paper not accepted for a regular presentation is
automatically considered for the poster track, with a two-page summary in the proceedings
— a real, citable outcome. Decide in advance whether you would take it.
- Rejected outright: reroute via
ppopp-topic-selection (CGO/PLDI/ASPLOS/SC or a later PPoPP
round) rather than resubmitting unchanged.
The artifact round (post-acceptance, CGO-shared)
- Artifact submission comes about a week after notification (PPoPP 2026: 17 November 2025) and
evaluation runs into the new year (notification 5 January 2026). It is separate from and
independent of the camera-ready.
- PPoPP's AE culture is shared with co-located CGO; confirm each cycle which committee runs it
and which badge set applies. Build the reproducible package now —
ppopp-artifact-evaluation and
ppopp-reproducibility — not after the camera-ready.
Camera-ready and presentation
- Camera-ready (PPoPP 2026: 9 January 2026) de-anonymizes, completes ACM rights/metadata, and
fixes the artifact DOI and any earned badges — see
ppopp-camera-ready.
- Presentation happens inside the co-located week; at least one author registers and presents.
Registration and travel for the HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC venue are shared logistics — book early.
Calibration and reverify
- Confirm the number of submission rounds and every date on the current Important Dates page.
- Confirm the artifact deadline is post-acceptance and CGO-shared, and the exact badge set.
- Do not assume last year's cadence; the summer/fall split is exactly the kind of thing that moves.
Output format
[Cycle target] PPoPP 20XX (edition), submission round, location, co-located family
[Critical path] machine reservation -> experiments -> draft -> double-blind -> submit
[Rebuttal readiness] pre-run experiments for the likely "does it scale / baseline X" asks
[Post-notification] talk / poster (auto-considered) / reroute
[Artifact] AE submission date, badge target, CGO-shared? camera-ready separate
