[hpc-announce] CFP: CARLA 2015- Latin American HPC Conference

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Call for Papers

CARLA 2015: Latin American HPC Conference (http://www.ccarla.org/)
Second HPCLATAM - CLCAR Joint Conference
26 - 28 October 2015
Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


co-located with HPCAC Brazil Conference 
(http://hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2015/brazil-workshop/)  and  
ERAD-RJ SCHOOL (http://eradrj2015.lncc.br/programacao.php)
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Aims & Scope
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The main goal of CARLA is to provide a forum fostering the growth of 
the HPC community in Latin America through the exchange and 
dissemination of new ideas, techniques, and research in HPC. Suggested 
topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: Parallel 
Algorithms and Techniques, GPU Computing Applications, Distributed, 
Grid, and Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing Applications, 
Visualizations and Software Tools, Component Technologies, Tools and 
Environments for High Performance System Engineering.

Instructions for Authors
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Authors are invited to submit full and short papers written in English, 
according to the Springer LNCS style. Full papers must have between 10 
to 15 pages and short papers must have between 4 to 6 pages. Papers must 
not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions 
will be handled electronically using the Easy Chair system: 
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?carla2015
The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be 
presented at the conference.

Proceedings and Special Issues in Journals
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All accepted full papers will be included in the CARLA 2015 proceedings 
that will be published in the serie CCIS of Springer: Communications in 
Computer and Information Science. In addition, authors of accepted full 
papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a Special Issue of 
Cluster Computing (Impact factor: 0.776). All accepted short papers will 
be published electronically in the "Book of Ongoing Works".

Organized by: LNCC, UFRGS, COPPE/UFRJ, UFMG, UTFSM, UIS
General Chair: Pedro L. Silva Dias (carla2015 at hpclatam.org)