[hpc-announce] Call for Papers: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing - CCGRID2016

[Shrideep Pallickara]

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Call for Papers:

The 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing - CCGRID2016

May 16-19, 2016. Cartagena, COLOMBIA, South America. http//ccgrid2016.uniandes.edu.co
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Advances in architectures, networks, systems and middleware technologies are leading to 
new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and 
Datacenters. The 16th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and 
Grid Computing (CCGrid 2016) is a forum bringing together international researchers, 
developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a 
broad range of topics related to these concepts, platforms, and their applications. 
The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, and posters, 
as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations. 

In 2016, CCGRID will come to Colombia, South America, for the first time, and it will 
be held in Cartagena, a historical, picturesque modern port city on Colombia´s Caribbean
Coast, which was designated on 1984 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The main conference
will be held on May 17-19, 2016, with affiliated workshops taking place on May 16, 2016.

All papers presented at the main conference, workshops, poster session (for proceedings 
posters), doctoral symposium, and SCALE challenge of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2016 will be 
submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and EI indexing.

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- Papers due on: October 30, 2015
- Author Notification: January 15, 2016
- Camera ready papers due: March 11, 2016

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Topics of interests:

CCGRID 2016 will have a focus on important and immediate issues that are significantly
influencing all aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing. Topics of interest include,
 but are not limited to:

* Applications and Experiences:
  Applications of new computing concepts and platforms to real and complex problems in 
  science, engineering, business, and society; User studies; Experiences with large-scale
  deployments, systems, or applications.
  
* Architecture and Networking:
  Design and use of emergent system architectures including but not limited to 
  accelerators; multicores; High availability solutions as well as network optimization,
  SDN Software Defined Networks and NFV Network Function Virtualization.
  
* Data Centers and CyberInfrastructure: 
  Self-managed behavior, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and systems 
  optimization (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Development, evaluation, 
  and optimization of large-scale computing architectures.
  
* Programming Models and Runtime System: 
  Programming models, systems software and environments for cluster, cloud, and grid 
  computing; Fault-tolerant systems, programs, and algorithms; MapReduce model and 
  implementation; programming and runtime optimizations for VM environments.
  
* Performance Modeling and Evaluation:
  Prediction of speed, time, energy, etc.; Modeling and analysis; Monitoring and 
  evaluation tools; Benchmarks and testbeds.
  
* Scheduling and Resource Management:
  Techniques to schedule jobs and resources on cluster, cloud, and grid computing 
  platforms; SLA definition and enforcement.
  
* Mobile and Hybrid Clouds: 
  Development, evaluation, and optimization of cloud architectures. Software tools 
  and techniques for clouds.
  
* Storage and I/O:
  System design and optimization for data storage and Big Data processing in cluster, 
  cloud, and grid environments.
  
* Security, Privacy and Reliability:
  Development and optimization in Application-level security, Security and reliability,
  Privacy statements.
  
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Paper submission guidelines:

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submissions must not 
exceed 10 letter-size pages using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submitted 
papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review 
for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be 
rejected without review and further action may be taken. 

For details see https://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/authors

The paper submission online system is open:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2016.
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Organization

General Chairs:
Harold Castro, Universidad de los Andes. CO.
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.
Carlos Jaime Barrios, Universidad Industrial de Santander, CO.

Program Committee Chairs:
Gul Agha, Illinios - Urbana Champaign, USA.
Philippe Navaux, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BR.

Program Committee Tracks and Vice-Chairs:

APPLICATIONS
 Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA

ARCHITECTURE AND NETWORKING
 Kirk Cameron, Virginia Tech, USA
 Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA

DATACENTERS and CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
 Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

PROGRAMMING MODELS and RUNTIME SYSTEMS
 Henry Bal, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands

PERFORMANCE MODELING and EVALUATION
 Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA

SCHEDULING and RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
 Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA

MOBILE and HYBRID CLOUDS
 Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, France

STORAGE and I/O
 Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

SECURITY, PRIVACY, and RELIABILITY
 Franck Cappello, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, France