[hpc-announce] CCPE Journal Special Issue CFP

[Federico Silla]

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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/ccpe2018
http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2018.html#HUCAA2018
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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 , such as FPGAs, 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. 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. 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.

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, FPGAs 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 : July 29 2018
- Notification: September 17, 2018
- Revision Due: October 21, 2018
- Final decision due: November 30, 2018
- Camera-ready paper due: December 17, 2018
- Electronic Publication: four months after all final papers submitted


GUEST EDITORS

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



SUBMISSIONS

- Submit your paper to Manuscript central as HUCAA2018 special issue at the
link https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cpe
- The submitted papers must have at least 50% different material beyond 
the conference
original papers or any other previously published work
- Manuscripts should not exceed 25 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/(ISSN)1532-0634/homepage/la_tex_class_file.htm