[hpc-announce] CCPE Journal Special Issue CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED

[Federico Silla]

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15 2017

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                        Journal Special Issue of
      Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience (CCPE)
                                   on
Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications 
(HUCAA)
                 http://www.hucaa-workshop.org/ccpe2017

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ABOUT THE JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

The special issue of Concurrency and Computation, Practice and 
Experience (CCPE) calls for submissions on heterogeneous and 
unconventional cluster architectures and applications. While this 
journal is thematically connected to the workshops series on 
Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications 
(HUCAA), this call is open for all contributions.

This special issue gears to gather recent work on heterogeneous and 
unconventional cluster architectures and applications, which might have 
an impact on future mainstream 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 special and unconventional applications. In particular 
we call for GPUs and other accelerators (Intel MIC/Xeon Phi, FPGA) used 
at cluster level. Even though accelerators are already used pervasively, 
we still see many unconventional and even disruptive uses of them.

Other examples of unconventional cluster architectures and applications 
include virtualization, in-memory storage, hard- and software 
interactions, run-times, 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 workshop 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. 
Also, proposals may rather be reflective of a broader industry trend. In 
this regard, one of the aims of the workshop is anticipating the 
evolution of clusters. Instead of just presenting new work carried out 
in the traditional cluster areas usually addressed in other conferences 
and workshops, we are thinking on creating the right atmosphere for a 
discussion of opportunities in cluster computing. In this regard, 
contributions would not only be accepted according to their technical 
merits but also according to their contribution to this discussion.

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.

This is an open call for contributions, but also invites (extended) 
selected papers from the Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster 
Architectures and Applications Workshop (HUCAA 2015 & 2016), collocated 
with IEEE CLUSTER respectively ICPP. Extended versions of conference 
papers must contain at least 50% new content.


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 cluster 
architectures
- Communication methods for distributed or clustered accelerators
- Energy-aware data movement techniques
- Energy efficiency at the cluster or node level
- New industry and technology trends and their potential impact
- High-performance, data-intensive, and power-aware computing
- Application-specific cluster and datacenter architectures
- Emerging programming paradigms for parallel heterogeneous computing
- Software cluster-level virtualization for consolidation purposes
- Hardware techniques for resource aggregation
- New uses of GPUs, FPGAs, and other specialized hardware


IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline : March 15, 2017
- Notification: April 30, 2017
- Revision Due: May 30, 2017
- Final decision due: June 30, 2017
- Camera-ready paper due: July 30, 2017
- Publication: early 2018 (estimated)


GUEST EDITORS
- Holger Fröning
   Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany
   holger.froening {at} ziti.uni-heidelberg.de
   http://www.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de/compeng
- Federico Silla, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
   fsilla {at} disca.upv.es
   http://www.disca.upv.es/fsilla


REVIEW BOARD
- Pedro Garcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Jesus Escudero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Karl Fürlinger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany
- Wainer Vandelli, CERN, Switzerland
- Benjamin Klenk, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Sébastien Rumley, Columbia University, US
- Sven-Bodo Scholz, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK
- Costas Bekas, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
- Blesson Varghese, U. St Andrews, UK
- Peter Zaspel, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Basilio Fraguela, U. Coruna, Spain
- Rong Ge, Clemson University, US
- Jeff Young, Georgia Tech, US
- Dirk Pleiter, Research Center Jülich, Germany
- Shuaiwen Leon Song, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), US
- Lena Oden, Argonne National Labs, US
- Prudence Wong, U. of Liverpool, UK


SUBMISSIONS
- At most 50% overlap allowed with any article such as previous 
conference or workshop paper
- Manuscripts should not exceed 30 pages in length
- Submissions must be prepared for publication according to the journal 
submission guidelines: http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/authors.html
- We recommend using the Latex template provided by Wiley: 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291532-0634/homepage/la_tex_class_file.htm