[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

            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). 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