[hpc-announce] Last CCGrid 2015 Call for Posters & Demos -- With update on best poster award and travel awards

[Junchao Zhang]

 (See below for BEST POSTER AWARD and TRAVEL AWARDS)

                          CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS
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                                 CCGrid 2015
    15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid
Computing
                                May 4-7, 2015
                               Shenzhen, China
                      http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/
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The 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid
Computing,
2015 (CCGrid) provides a forum for both academia and industry professionals
to
present their latest research findings in all aspects of cluster, cloud, and
grid technologies in the form of a poster or demo, both of which will be
included in the conference proceedings. Posters and demos will be presented
during the same session, during the conference. Additionally, authors may
submit
posters for publication on the web. All papers presented at poster session
(for proceedings posters) of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015 will be submitted to IEEE
Xplore for publication and EI indexing.


SUBMISSION
======================
Posters can be submitted through
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2015. Submissions must be
received by January 30, 2015 (see below for other important dates).

See "Types of Posters" below for details on the exact materials that authors
must submit to be considered for the conference’s poster/demo session.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
======================
The topics of interest are the same as in the Call for Papers.
(http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-papers.html)

TYPES OF POSTERS
======================
Participants submitting proceedings-published papers/demos are required to
submit a short paper, 4 pages, describing the content, the research
supporting
it, and the relevance and importance to the cluster, cloud, and grid
computing
community. If accepted, this short paper will be published in the
proceedings
of the conference.

Participants submitting web-published papers are required to submit a short
1-page
extended abstract. These abstracts will not be included in the conference
proceedings.

Upon acceptance, you will prepare a poster (be it proceedings-published or
web-published) to be displayed at the conference along with any demo you
would
like to showcase. All accepted posters will be posted on the conference
website.

POSTER PRESENTATION
======================
The authors of selected posters will be allotted short speaking slots to
present
their work at the CCGrid Poster Session. The students will also present
their
posters and talk one-on-one with the attendees in the poster exhibition
session.
The recommended poster size is A1 (594mm by 841mm, portrait).

BEST POSTER AWARD
======================
This year CCGrid will be offering an award recognizing the best research
poster
presented at the conference. During the poster session your poster will be
reviewed by a judging panel selected from the conference organizing and
program
committee. Your poster will be judged based on the novelty, quality of
research
undertaken and clarity of presentation. The Best Poster will receive $200.

TRAVEL AWARDS
======================
A number of student travel awards, pending on US NSF final approval, will be
available for attendees of posters and demos.

IMPORTANT DATES
======================
Proceedings-published papers due: Extended to Feb 6th, 2015, 11:59PM, AOE
(was Jan 30, 2015)
Notification of acceptance: February 13, 2015
Camera-ready posters due: March 20, 2015
Web-published posters due: March 18, 2015
Notification of acceptance: April 06, 2015

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
======================
Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not
exceed 4 (proceedings published) or 1 (web published) letter size (8.5 x 11)
pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for
conference proceedings. For the final camera-ready version, authors with
accepted papers may purchase up to two additional pages at the following
rates: 100 USD for each page.See formatting templates for details:

LaTex Package ZIP
    http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/files/IEEECS_confs_LaTeX.zip
Word Template DOC and PDF
    http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/files/instruct8.5x11x2.doc
    http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/files/instruct8.5x11x2.pdf

Demo submissions may include an additional 1-page appendix describing the
specific contents of the demo that conference attendees would see. Any
special
technical requirements for the demo should also be described in this
appendix.
The contents of this appendix will be used to evaluate whether the demo is a
good fit for CCGrid 2015, but will not be included in the proceedings.

POSTERS COMMITTEE
======================
    Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Houston, USA (Chair)
    Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China
    Chang Chip Hong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    Saber Feki, KAUST, SA
    Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
    Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
    Chao Chen, Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
    Douglas Maskell, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    Guido Juckeland, TU-Dresden, Germany
    Matthias Muller, RWTH-Aachen, Germany
    Xiaofei Liao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
    James Beyer, Cray, USA
    Yu Shao, Statoil, China
    John Lidel, Micron Technology, USA
    Seyong Lee, ORNL, USA
    Dezun Dong, National University of Defense Technology, China
    Cui Xiang, Peking University, China
    Zhibin Fang, VMware, USA
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