[hpc-announce] Deadline Extension: CCPE Journal Special Issue on Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications (HUCAA)

[Holger Fröning]

(apologies if you receive multiple HUCAA publicity emails)

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                Deadline extended: February 22 2015
                      (no further extensions)
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                   SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

              Journal of Concurrency and Computation:
                      Practice and Experience

         Special Issue on Heterogeneous and Unconventional
               Cluster Architectures and Applications

         Guest Editors: Federico Silla and Holger Fröning

               http://www.hucaa-workshop.org/ccpe2015 <http://www.hucaa-workshop.org/ccpe2015>

    http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2015.html#HUCAA2015 <http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2015.html#HUCAA2015>
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This special issue gears to gather recent work on heterogeneous and
unconventional cluster architectures and applications, which might have
a big impact on future cluster architectures. This includes any cluster
architecture that is not based on the usual commodity components and
therefore makes use of some special hard- or software elements, or that
is used for very special and unconventional applications. Examples
include GPUs and other accelerators (Intel MIC/Xeon Phi, FPGA) used at
cluster level. Other examples include run-time management,
virtualization, in-memory storage,  hard- and software interactions,
databases, and device-to-device communication. We are in particular
encouraging work on disruptive approaches, which may show inferior
performance today but can already point out their performance
potential. The broad scope of the special issue facilitates submissions
on unconventional uses of hardware or software, gearing to gather ideas
that are coming to life now and not limiting them except for their
context: clusters. Also, these proposals may rather be reflective of a
broader industry trend.

We are seeking new proposals presented from a holistic perspective. In
this regard, one of the aims of the special issue is anticipating the
evolution of clusters, instead of just presenting new work carried out
in the traditional cluster areas usually addressed in other journals
and conferences.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include any heterogeneous or unconventional cluster
architecture or application. Examples include, but are not limited to:

- Clustered GPUs, Xeon Phis or other accelerators
- Runtimes, resource management and scheduling for heterogeneous
  clusters
- Communication methods for distributed or clustered accelerators
- Energy-aware data movement techniques
- New industry and technology trends and their potential impact
- High-performance, data-intensive, and power-aware computing
- Application-specific cluster, datacenter, and high performance
  cloud architectures
- Emerging programming paradigms for parallel heterogeneous computing
- Software cluster-level virtualization for consolidation purposes
- Hardware techniques for resource aggregation
- Management layers for large-scale systems
- New uses of GPUs, FPGAs, and other specialized hardware
- Dedicated support for novel parallel programming paradigms like PGAS
  or MapReduce


IMPORTANT DATES
- EXTENDED submission deadline: Feb 22, 2015
- Notification to authors: April 15, 2015
- Revision Due: May 15, 2015
- Final decision due: June 15, 2015
- Final manuscript due: July 15, 2015
- Publication: 4th Quarter of 2015 (estimated)


INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION
Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under
review by other journals or conferences. If prior work was published in
a conference, the submitted manuscript should include a substantial
extension of at least 30% novel contributions. In this case, authors
are also required to submit their published conference articles and a
summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal
version.


GUEST EDITORS
- Federico Silla, Technical University of Valencia, Spain,
  fsilla at disca.upv.es <mailto:fsilla at disca.upv.es>
- Holger Fröning, University of Heidelberg, Germany,
  holger.froening at ziti.uni-heidelberg.de <mailto:holger.froening at ziti.uni-heidelberg.de>
 

REVIEW BOARD
Tarek Abdelrahman, U. Toronto, Canada
Victor Bauset, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Costas Bekas, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
Javier Cuenca, U. Murcia, Spain
Jesús Escudero, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Pierfrancesco Foglia, U. Pisa, Italy
Basilio Fraguela, U. Coruna, Spain
Efstratios Gallopoulos, U. Patras, Greece
Pedro Javier Garcia, U. Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Rong Ge, Marquette University, US
Luc Giraud, INRIA, France
Marc Gonzalez, U. Politecnica Catalunya, Spain
Mitch Gusat, IBM, Zürich, Switzerland
Christoph Kessler, U. Linköping, Sweden
Pierre Manneback, U. Mons, Belgium
Tomàs Margalef, U. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain                   
Henning Meyerhenke, KIT, Germany
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, INSA, Lyon, France                
Angeles Navarro, U. Malaga, Spain  
Thu D. Nguyen, U. Rutgers, US                    
Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK        
Antonio Pena, Argonne National Laboratory, US                     
Dirk Pleiter, Research Center Jülich, Germany                     
Krzysztof Rzadca, U. of Warsaw, Poland
Thomas Rauber, U. Bayreuth, Germany     
Alistair Rendell, Australian National University, Australia                 
Etienne Riviere, U. Neuchatel, Switzerland                  
Won Woo Ro, Yonsei University, South Korea                       
Antonio Robles, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Sudip Seal, Oak Ridge National Labs, US                       
Douglas Thain, U. Notre Dame, US                    
Matthew Jacob Thazhuthaveetil, Indian Institute of Science, India    
Blesson Varghese, U. St Andrews, UK
Prudence Wong, U. of Liverpool, UK


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.hucaa-workshop.org/ccpe2015 <http://www.hucaa-workshop.org/ccpe2015>
http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2015.html#HUCAA2015 <http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2015.html#HUCAA2015>



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