ppopp-topic-selection
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).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ppopp-topic-selection --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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 the concurrency/parallel-performance story, is there still a paper? If yes, the contribution lives elsewhere. ## Sibling-venue routing table | Signal in your project | Better home | Why | |---|---|---| | The contribution *is* a parallel algorithm, runtime, synchronization mechanism, or a concurrency-corr
- The routing question that matters most
- Sibling-venue routing table
- Contribution shapes PPoPP rewards
- The remove-the-parallelism and swap-the-machine tests
- Evidence maturity, without the cliché
- Cheap reconnaissance before committing
- Decision procedure
What does the ppopp-topic-selection skill do?
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).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ppopp-topic-selection --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.